{"id":11352,"date":"2023-03-17T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T22:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/?p=11352"},"modified":"2023-03-17T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T22:59:13","slug":"senator-the-hon-adrian-thomas-to-participate-in-high-level-forum-on-sustainable-land-management-in-trinidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/senator-the-hon-adrian-thomas-to-participate-in-high-level-forum-on-sustainable-land-management-in-trinidad\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator The Hon. Adrian Thomas To Participate In High-Level Forum On Sustainable Land Management In Trinidad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister with Responsibility for Agriculture\u00a0 and Lands, Senator the Honorable Adrian Thomas, will from March 23rd \u2013 24th March, join\u00a0 other Ministers from across the Caribbean Community to review the implementation of\u00a0 Sustainable Land and Soil Management Projects that currently impact ten (10) nations including\u00a0 Grenada.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Sustainable Land and Soil Management Projects are initiatives of the Partnership\u00a0 for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM), funded and supported by the Food & Agriculture\u00a0 Organisation (FAO), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the\u00a0 University of the West Indies- St. Augustine Campus, the Global Environment Facility and\u00a0 member states including Grenada. These regional projects seek to create a conducive enabling\u00a0 environment and supports countries to establish, implement, monitor, and report on progress\u00a0 toward Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) targets.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Thomas will participate in the High-Level engagements that will seek to review progress\u00a0 made in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (CSIDS) \u2013 SOILCARE Phase I, approve the\u00a0 GEF Project Implementation Form (PIF) for CSIDS \u2013 SOILCARE Phase II, set the parameters\u00a0 for the Caribbean LDN Transformative Project and review the institutional capacities of PISLM\u00a0 to carry out its mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The high-level engagements come fresh on the heels of initiatives in Grenada, such as capacity\u00a0 building in soil sampling techniques, and engagement with Senior Management Staff ahead of\u00a0 Grenada\u2019s National Soil Survey that will be rolled out from March 27- April 14, with assistance\u00a0 from various departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Fisheries and Cooperatives.<\/p>\n<p>The High-Level Forum comprises Ministers responsible for the implementation of the UNCCD.\u00a0 It meets once every two years and is considered to be in quorum when a minimum of seven (7)\u00a0 country member-parties are present. It is the principal policy making organ of the PISLM, and\u00a0 formulates national and regional sustainable development strategies for Sustainable Land\u00a0 Management (SLM), Sustainable Soil Management (SSM) and Integrated Land Management\u00a0 (ILM).<\/p>\n<p>These discussions at the High-Level Forum will finalise the approximately US$90M in funding\u00a0 that has been identified by PISLM for the execution of Sustainable Land Management and Land\u00a0 Degradation Projects in the Caribbean, including Grenada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Minister with Responsibility for Agriculture\u00a0 and Lands, Senator the Honorable Adrian Thomas, will from March 23rd \u2013 24th March, join\u00a0 other Ministers from across the Caribbean Community to review the implementation of\u00a0 Sustainable Land and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/senator-the-hon-adrian-thomas-to-participate-in-high-level-forum-on-sustainable-land-management-in-trinidad\/\" title=\"Senator The Hon. Adrian Thomas To Participate In High-Level Forum On Sustainable Land Management In Trinidad\">[…]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-argriculture","8":"category-government-news"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?fit=768%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?fit=768%2C960&ssl=1",768,960,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg",768,960,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg",768,960,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?fit=240%2C300&ssl=1",240,300,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?fit=768%2C960&ssl=1",768,960,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?fit=768%2C960&ssl=1",768,960,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?fit=768%2C960&ssl=1",768,960,true],"mh-magazine-slider":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?resize=768%2C438&ssl=1",768,438,true],"mh-magazine-content":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?resize=678%2C381&ssl=1",678,381,true],"mh-magazine-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?resize=678%2C509&ssl=1",678,509,true],"mh-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?resize=326%2C245&ssl=1",326,245,true],"mh-magazine-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drealfmgrenada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hon.-Adrian-Thomas-3-768x960-1.jpg?resize=80%2C60&ssl=1",80,60,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"adminrfm","author_link":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/author\/adminrfm\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/category\/argriculture\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Agriculture<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/government-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Government News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Minister with Responsibility for Agriculture\u00a0 and Lands, Senator the Honorable Adrian Thomas, will from March 23rd \u2013 24th March, join\u00a0 other Ministers from across the Caribbean Community to review the implementation of\u00a0 Sustainable Land and [...]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11354,"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions\/11354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}