Jamaica is located in the Carribean and we are smack between two major shipping lanes. We are also geostrategically located between the demand countries for narcotics in North America and the supply country countries in South America. Most importantly, the coastal waters in Jamaica are one of the most overfished waters ...
Read More »LARGE OCEAN NATIONS FORUM 2018 PART 1
H.E. MR. HOGNI HOYDAL: It’s a great honour for me as Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands to address this workshop today where we will focus on the challenges of large ocean nations around transnational organised fisheries Crime, and the establishment of the large ocean nations ...
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The ECO (Environmental Children’s Organisation), which is a group of 12 and 13-year-olds, trying to make a difference. They raised all the money themselves to be at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development to travel 5000 miles to tell adults at the conference that they need to change ...
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COP 21 PARIS University of Reading UK speaker Dr. Peter Dorward & Walker Inst. Prof. Ros Cornforth on: Supporting African farming communities with climate data to enable improved decision-making criteria, food crop security and create sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. Dr Peter Dorward: Most climate services have tended to focus ...
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Organic Farmer & Panel Speaker Theo de Jager, on,viable Organic Farming and the power of the End-consumers choice in the Value Chain to support global sustainable conservation farming. The most important people are the house wives and journalists. The housewife who stands in front of the stove, decides what the ...
Read More »COP 16 Dr. Keith Paustian Nitrogen & Soil Carbon Mngmt.
COP 16 CANCUN Dr. Keith Paustian speaks on effective nitrogen and soil carbon management in agriculture. Take for example the issue of nitrogen management, whether you’re using fertiliser or manure, basically nitrous oxide emissions are resulting from the inefficient use of Nitrogen. The more nitrogen that doesn’t get into the plant, ...
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