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		<title>Event: 107th Session of the IFAD Executive Board</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IFAD Executive Board is the Fund's second main Governing Body, consisting of 18 elected Members and 18 Alternate Members. The Executive Board has full authority to decide on the programme of work, approval of projects, programmes and grants and to adopt/recommend action, pending the final approval of the Governing Council, on matters related to policy, the annual administrative budget, applications for membership and staffing within the Fund.]]></description>
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		<title>Event: 106th Session of the IFAD Executive Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IFAD Executive Board is the Fund's second main Governing Body, consisting of 18 elected Members and 18 Alternate Members. The Executive Board has full authority to decide on the programme of work, approval of projects, programmes and grants and to adopt/recommend action, pending the final approval of the Governing Council, on matters related to policy, the annual administrative budget, applications for membership and staffing within the Fund.]]></description>
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		<title>Event: 105th Session of the IFAD Executive Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IFAD Executive Board is the Fund's second main Governing Body, consisting of 18 elected Members and 18 Alternate Members. The Executive Board has full authority to decide on the programme of work, approval of projects, programmes and grants and to adopt/recommend action, pending the final approval of the Governing Council, on matters related to policy, the annual administrative budget, applications for membership and staffing within the Fund.]]></description>
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		<title>Event: 35th Session of IFAD&#039;s Governing Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Fund for Agricultural Development will hold its two-day Governing Council meeting as a forum for member States, partners and the public to discuss and debate what needs to be done to enable smallholder farmers to contribute to raising food availability by 70% by 2050. High level speakers will include Bill Gates, and Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, the CEO of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network, who will present on "What promise will Rio herald for agriculture." The IFAD concept note for the meeting also highlights climate change challenges to sustainable agriculture and intervention options.]]></description>
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		<title>Intergovernmental Meeting on the GEO-5 SPM Reviews Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Intergovernmental Meeting on the GEO-5 Summary for Policy Makers concluded in Gwangju, Republic of Korea after three days of deliberation. Delegates identified policy responses in seven areas: environmental governance; energy; chemicals and waste; land; climate change; biodiversity; and water resources and sanitation.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has reported that many innovations have been introduced in the performance review and assessment of implementation system (PRAIS). In parallel to the development of the changes, parties are invited to comment on draft reporting tools posted on the UNCCD website and the PRAIS portal, before they are finalized and made available for the forthcoming reporting cycle. ]]></description>
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		<title>UNCCD Executive Secretary Addresses African Forestry and Wildlife Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luc Gnacadja, the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) emphasized that the management and conservation of dry forests are essential for combatting desertification. He also stressed the need to establish quantitative objectives and to establish a "no net land degradation" as a sustainable development goal.]]></description>
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		<title>Report on UNCCD Impact Indicator Workshop Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The objective of the workshop was to facilitate countries piloting the UNCCD Impact Indicators to develop lessons learned on the feasibility and applicability of the indicators and to synthesize them into key messages to be presented to the tenth meeting of Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the UNCCD, which met immediately after the workshop.]]></description>
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		<title>SPREP Issues First Fact Sheet on Building MEA Capacity in PICs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact sheet describes pre-Conference of the Parties (COP) trainings conducted by SPREP for Pacific Island Countries (PICs) participants in preparation for CBD COP 10 and UNCCD COP 10, as well as assistance provided by SPREP to Kiribati in developing national action plans for climate change, biodiversity conservation, waste, energy, agriculture and water in relation to MEA implementation.]]></description>
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		<title>UNCCD News Issue Reviews COP 10 Outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Climate Change Policy &amp; Practice - IISD Reporting Services</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his opening message, UNCCD Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja highlights that the Changwon Initiative, which the Republic of Korea launched at COP 10, seeks to further advance the implementation of the UNCCD’s 10-year Strategy. He also calls attention to, inter alia, the Land for Life Award and the Sustainable Land Management Business Forum. Gnacadja urges the international community “to adopt the goal of a land- degradation-neutral world” at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development  (UNCSD, or Rio+20).]]></description>
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