FAO and SIDS

A long-lasting partnership

Rome, 2 December 2003

Purpose of side event

Integrate agriculture in sustainable development

Contents

SIDS process

FAO achievements

Trends and issues

Agriculture within SIDS Agenda 21

Alliance Of Small Islands States (AOSIS)

PacificCaribbean

AIMS

SIDS members of FAOPacific region: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu (Tuvalu, F.S. of Micronesia)

Caribbean region: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize#, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic*, Grenada, Guyana#, Jamaica, Haiti*, St. Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago

Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Seas: Maldives, Mauritius, Comoros, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau#, Sao Tome and Principe, Cyprus, Malta, Bahrain*

Emergence of SIDS Agenda

FAO Inter-Regional Conference, 1992

UN Global Conference, 1994

FAO Ministerial Conference, 1999

BPOA or SIDS Agenda 21

16 areas: climate, disasters, wastes, oceans, freshwater, land, energy, tourism, biodiversity, transport, science, institutions and human resources ...

Plan of Action on Agriculture in SIDS

Global trading environment

Sustainable agriculture

Fisheries needs

Forestry, environment and natural hazards

Institutional strengthening

Review of SIDS Agenda 21

Pacific: Samoa, 4-8 Aug. 2003

AIMS: Cape Verde, 1-5 Sept. 2003

Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago, 6-10 Oct. 2003

Inter-regional: Bahamas, 26-30 Jan. 2004

Prep. meeting: 12-14 April 2004

International Conference: Mauritius, 30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2004

FAO within the UN process

FAO Plan of Action

SIDS Agenda 21

Millennium Development Goals

FAO’s assistance to SIDS

Two decades:US$ 300 million1300 projects

Since 1994: US$ 95 million607 projects

Adjusting to globalization

since 1994: US$ 7.5 million

Multilateral trade negotiations

Access to WTO

Nutrition

Codex Alimentarius

Food control and safety

Agriculture diversification

since 1994: US$ 40.4 million

Enhancing traditional food systems

Agriculture-tourism linkages

Integrated pest management

Sustainable water use

Genetic resources

Fisheries needssince 1994: US$ 9 million

Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement

Monitoring, control and surveillance

Regional cooperation

Forestry and the environmentsince 1994: US$ 9 million

Code of Conduct of Logging of Indigenous Forests

Forest policy review (Caribbean, 1998)

Agro-forestry

Mangrove and coastal management

Watershed management

Policies and emergencies since 1994: US$ 14 million

Initiative to Support the Review and Update of National Policies and Strategies

Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System

Natural disaster management

Issues and trends

Issues from sub-regional meetings

National security

Vulnerability to global developments

Trade regimes

Oceans and unregulated fishing

Breakdown of food systems

Regional institutions

ODA to SIDS (-50% since 1990)

FAO observed trends

Relative poverty

Food import dependency

Nutrition-related health diseases

Weaknesses

Small-scale

Land and water insecurity

Agriculture homogeneity

Ecological and economic vulnerability

Poor inter-sectoral integration

The way forward

Bahamas, January 2004New York, April 2004Mauritius, August 2004

Implementation of BPOA + MDG + JPOI

Formulation of AOSIS negotiating position

Agriculture in SIDS Agenda 21

Bahamas• FAO Report to Secretary-General• SIDS inter-sectoral dialogue

New York• FAO trade study• SIDS steps towards a trade coalition

What after Mauritius?

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