The Project inception workshop for a new initiative aimed at strengthening sustainable land and soil management, improving water security, and reducing drought was conducted in Petit Martinique with the engagement of stakeholders including residents, farmers, businesses, and other beneficiaries. The project, which aims to directly benefit 400 people, with more than 50 percent of the...
Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Transformation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Hon. Israel Bruce, has lobbied for the transition from fragmented project financing to structured agricultural investment systems that can address the needs of people within small islands like his country. Speaking during a Ministerial dialogue on Innovative Financial Mechanisms for Healthy Land...
Drawing on the urgent action needed to attend to the growing impacts of drought in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (CSIDS), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD’s) focal point for St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Eric Brown, has warned that the prolonged dry periods are impacting the livelihoods of people within the Caribbean. Browne,...
Executive Director of the Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM), Dr. Ronen Francis, has called for stronger national data ecosystems to support countries in delivering timely, reliable and nationally owned reporting under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Dr. Francis made the call during a joint CRIC/CST plenary session at UNCCD COP17,...
Grenada has called for greater inclusion, capacity-building, and safeguards in the use of digitalization and artificial intelligence to advance sustainable land management, land restoration, and drought resilience. Delivering Grenada’s statement during discussions of the Committee on Science and Technology at the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention...
The Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM), is pleased to sponsor two award categories for the 2026 Caribbean Broadcasting Union’s (CBU’s) Media Awards, scheduled for Guyana in August. As part of efforts to encourage environmental reporting particularly showing land degradation as a lived reality and the vulnerability of communities- as resilient and capable of...
As part of efforts to assess progress towards combating desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD), tracking advancement towards attaining Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), representatives from Caribbean Small Island Developing States, joined other countries from Latin America for a regional capacity building and UNCCD national reporting exercise. Contributing to global monitoring frameworks including Sustainable Development Goal...
Significant progress is being made through the Enhancing Land Management and Strengthening Ecosystem Resilience for Integrated Landscape Restoration and Climate-Resilient Food Systems in Carriacou, also known as the Carriacou ILM Project to improve farmers’ access to water, which will enhance irrigation, boost food production, increase livestock, and ultimately improve their livelihoods by increasing their earnings....
A historic moment for Grenada and the wider Caribbean- the first regional Inter-Governmental Organisation mandated to implement the UNCCD mandate has officially opened its headquarters in the country. This is a critical step to improve regional coordination, advance sustainable soil and land management, and climate resilience. Officials of the Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management...
ST. GEORGE’S GRENADA, FEBRUARY 24TH, 2026-The impacts of the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF’s) funding of the CSIDS SOILCARE Project, was prominently showcased during the organisation’s joint mission to St. Lucia and Grenada, along with representatives of the Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Government of Canada. During...
