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CSD-8 Sustainable Development Success Stories (2000)
Introduction
Since 1997 the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), through its Secretariat, has been recording successful efforts to implement Agenda 21. This is the fourth volume of sustainable development success stories compiled using information submitted over the past year. Our practice is to focus the success stories on Agenda 21 topics currently being discussed by the CSD.
These success stories are collected and presented to the CSD to help share positive experiences and encourage information about sustainable development. They are a way to recognize the commitment demonstrated by a diversity of groups including NGOs, UN Agencies, Women’s groups, Local Authorities, Governments and Indigenous People, as well as partnerships between them.
To collect these success stories, the CSD Secretariat made a call to governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental groups to submit cases, that demonstrate the level and extent of Major Groups involvement in issues related to agriculture, integrated planning and management of land resources, financial resources, trade and investment and economic growth as main topics for the Commission's eight Session. We have also included Changing consumption and production patterns, poverty alleviation, as overriding issues and education and capacity building, as crosscutting concerns.
The present volume is based on project descriptions and activities that have led to tangible results and involved partnerships among different actors including community participation, that have a potential for replication elsewhere and from which we can learn lessons that can be disseminated around the world. The text of these stories has been kept as close as possible to the original submissions. Some of the success stories have been supplemented by additional research done by the CSD Secretariat. The CSD Secretariat sincerely thanks all individuals and institutions that responded and shared their stories of success.
Integrated Planning and Management of Land Resources, Agriculture and Forests
- Income Generating Activities Project
- The Swedish FSC-standard - an application of the Agenda 21 concept
- Employing Sustainable Community Resource Management
- Conservation Farming for Sustainable Agriculture
- Food Security and Forestry
- Farmer-Scientist Research Partnerships for Integrated Aquaculture
- Land Conservation and Small holder Rehabilitation in Ghana
- Unlimited Responsibility of the Union of Indian Communities of the Isthmus Region
- AMISCONDE New Institutional Alliance for Natural Resource Protection and New Income Sources for Local Rural Communities
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
- Biodiversity Conservation in the Chocó Biogeographic region
- Participatory agricultural management
- 51 Russian Sustainable Agriculture Extension Centres
- Management, Conservation and Utilization of Forest Resources in Cochabamba Tropics
- Uttar Pradesh Sodic Lands Reclamation Projects
- Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation Project
- The Joint Initiative on Addressing the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation
- National Program for Agricultural Technology Transfer (PRONATTA)
- Buoyem Sacred Grove Conservation Project
- Conservation Planning Assistance in Idaho
- The Forest Reconciliation of Monseñor Romero
- Promotion of Horti-Forestry for Sustainable Livelihood
- Mountain Areas Conservancy Project
- Attaining Productive and Sustainable Land Use
- Combating Desertification Through Stakeholders Participation, With The Construction Of A Delay Action Check Dam At Khar - Gadap, Malir
- Harvesting Sustainability
- Application of Biodynamic Methods in the Egyptian Cotton Sector
- Combating Desertification and Disasters In Guantánamo, Cuba
- Suntaa-Nuntaa land degradation control project in Upper West region of Ghana
Financial Resources, Trade and Investment, Economic Growth
- Micro Enterprise Training and Income Generation for Rural Women
- Tamil Nadu Women’s Development Project
- Partners in grassroots development: UNV and the Trickle Up Program in Malawi
- Production Credit for Rural Women, Nepal
Consumption and Production Patterns, Poverty, Education, Capacity Building
- Bike Aid: Pedal for the Planet
- YES! Environmental Action Camps
- Phase out of Ozone Depleting Substances
- The Poland Efficient Lighting Project (PELP)
- Electric Vehicle Promotion in Nepal
- Company for Information of Works Councils Concerning Environmental Protection in the Chemical Industry
- Aid to Environment Sector in Vietnam: Study on Lessons Learned
- Population Education in the Maldives
- One In a Million Campaign
- The Agenda Center
- The Logarska Dolina Landscape Park
- The Pro-Local Supply
- The Greater Lyons "Urban Environment Chart"
- Planet Xpress
- Nature Calls
- School of Life