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LAST week’s high-level meeting of regional stakeholders on the issue of sustainable land management pointed to a potentially vital tool in addressing the issue of climate change. “This high-level session is the starting point of implementation, since it may be seen as the catalyst for the necessary political momentum required to turn policy into action,”
Stakeholders – government and non-government alike – across the region say the Caribbean must tackle issues of land management as the effects of climate change, especially drought conditions, continue to intensify. They said the region has been plagued by soil mismanagement for over 60 years. Minister of Planning and Development Pennelope Beckles said climate-change trends