Water and Agriculture: Sustainability, Markets and Policies, OECD A new OECD publication Water and Agriculture: Sustainability, Markets and Policies — Conclusions and Recommendations came out in March. This publication is drawn from a recent OECD Workshop on Water and Agriculture, held in Adelaide, Australia, November 2005. The Proceedings of the Workshop (450 pages) will be [...]
Archive for March, 2006
A technical session on culture and knowledge in wetland management was held in the framework of the 9th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on wetlands, 8-15 November 2005, Kampala, Uganda. Opened by the Secretary Generla of the convention, the session included presentations by world regions addressing the issue of cultural [...]
The 4th World Water Forum is being held in Mexico City between 16-22 March. This initiative of the World Water Council aims at raising awareness on water issues all over the world. As the main international event on water, it seeks to enable multi-stakeholder participation and dialogue to influence water policy making at a global [...]
A new large scale project aiming to assist in better managing the transboundary Ramsar site of Prespa in the South East Balcans has been approved. Titled “Integrated Ecosystem Management in the Prespa Lakes Basin”, the project will be completed within four years and financed mainly through the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the United Nations Development [...]
Albania joined the Ramsar Convention in 1995 and has taken the opportunity of World Wetlands Day 2006 to designate its third Ramsar Site with a two-day ceremony in the town of Shkoder. This was the culmination of the lake Shkodra part of the project on “Transboundary cooperation through management of shared natural resources”, managed by [...]
