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Sustainable Land Management
Since September 2005, the Department has been
serving as Joint Executing Agency (along with the Caribbean Environmental
Health Institute) for a GEF Project Development Facility (PDF-B) project
entitled: Preventing Land Degradation through Sustainable Land Management in
seven Participating Countries[1].
This preparatory project is supporting the design of a Full Size Project (FSP)
which will address the problems of land degradation, in particular
deforestation and loss of ecosystem goods and services, and endemic species.
It will promote the adoption of sustainable land management practices,
institutional arrangements, policies and incentives, aimed at the mitigation
of land degradation and the enhancement of the functioning of fragile and
unique ecosystems of small islands in the Caribbean. The project will
contribute to the harmonization of sustainable land management priorities
identified in the National Action Programmes (NAPs) to combat
desertification as well as in the National Biodiversity Strategies and
Action Plans of the Participating Countries
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