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Supporting Sustainable Development through
Agriculture, Forestry and Tourism ....
As part of the preparatory process for the Ministerial
Meeting, a small one-day technical workshop was hosted
with the
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
(IICA) on November 2, 2005 to examine emerging
management approaches that support economic and
sustainability objectives in agriculture, forestry and
tourism. During the meeting, experts identified the
linkages between economic growth, development and
natural resources by looking at issues such as the
valuation of ecosystem services and the potential for
furthering win-win economic-environment partnerships,
through emerging market-driven opportunities. Various
enabling conditions needed to ensure sustainable
management practices were analyzed, including the role
of legal-institutional frameworks, investment climate,
property rights, fiscal policy, national systems related
to forestry management (including monitoring and
assessment), the relationship between
command-and-control enforcement and market-based
systems, as well as sources of financing – particularly
innovative financing – in support of sustainability.
This meeting was the first of a series of workshops
organized under the responsibility of the Department of
Sustainable Development of the OAS/GS, in order to
prepare for the First Inter-American Ministerial Meeting
on Sustainable Development focused on sustaining
economic development by strengthening environmental
management, to be held in Bolivia in December, 4-5 2006.
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December, 3 2006.
Meeting with Biodiversity Experts
