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Policy PaperSmall Island Developing States (SIDS) Natural Resources Management and the Environment in FAO/Prakash Singh1 The First United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 (also known as the Earth Summit) acknowledged that SIDS are a special case for sustainable development (given their unique and particular vulnerabilities).This gave rise to the First International Conference on SIDS in 1994 and the Barbados Program of Action (BPOA) which is the main policy framework addressing the economic, social and environmental vulnerabilities facing SIDS. The sustainable development of SIDS was also at the heart of the Second International Conference on SIDS held in Mauritius in 2005, and the Mauritius Strategy for the further implementation of the Programme of Action for the sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States was adopted and subsequently endorsed by the United Nations General United Nations Conf

which ensure food security and make agriculture part of the solution to achieve sustainable development. Although the synergies among these five strategic objectives are important, Strategic Objective 2 (Increase and improve provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner) and Strategic Objective ...

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