Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LARC) 30th Session
Keeping in mind the influence that the Agrarian Reform has over the regional development is taking a look of the contributions that it can pose in order to get the social, economical and environmental reconciliation of our times. Therefore, this was one of the challenges of the Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean 30th Session that took place in Brazil between April 14th and 18th. In addition to other points, their discussion panels included the relationships between the public and private sectors in order to enhance the rural foment, the agro-energy, the fight against the hunger, the country sustainable management and the necessary politics to face the transboundary diseases.
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World Day to Combat Desertification
In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 17 the "World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought" to promote public awareness and the implementation of the United Nations Convention to combat desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification.
This year's celebration is very important since the adoption of the '10-year strategic plan and framework' to enhance the implementation of the Convention represents a turning point in the UNCSD process and recognizes the convention as an instrument to prevent, control and reverse desertification/land degradation and also to contribute to the reduction of poverty while promoting sustainable development.
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Colombia Ships Seeds of Staple Food Crops to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for Safeguarding
Colombia is participating in one of the world's most ambitious projects. Known as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the project aims to preserve, safe from any catastrophe, humanity's agricultural heritage.
As a service to the global community, the Norwegian Government constructed a huge vault to preserve the world's plant germplasm from any potential disaster—hence the media's nicknames "Doomsday Vault" and "Noah's Ark". This polar fortress, built near the town of Longyearbyen, is buried deep in the bowels of a sandstone mountain on Spitsbergen Island, in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, near the North Pole (giving the vault yet another name: "Arctic Seed Vault").
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