The National National Strategy for Agricultural Development aims to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives. It aims to provide a conducive environment for private sector participation in agricultural development, increase investment, enhance plant-animal production integration, create new job opportunities, increase farmers’ incomes, ensure economic equity, increase productivity, reduce production costs, improve produce competitiveness, increase agricultural production, improve food self-reliance, integrate the sector with other economic sectors, link domestic supply with market demand, and develop farmer organisations. Social objectives include limiting migration from rural areas to urban areas, increasing women’s participation in agricultural development, enhancing farmers’ capabilities, and improving health, educational, and social services and living standards for rural people.
The National National Strategy for Agricultural Development aims to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives. It aims to provide a conducive environment for private sector participation in agricultural development, increase investment, enhance plant-animal production integration, create new job opportunities, increase farmers’ incomes, ensure economic equity, increase productivity, reduce production costs, improve produce competitiveness, increase agricultural[…]
New Zealand’s national implementation under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2006) (NIP) sets out how New Zealand proposed to meet our obligations for the initial 12 chemicals, such as on the release of dioxin, completely phasing out the release of PCBs, undertaking the environmentally sound management of POPs wastes such as obsolete chemicals[…]
This updated plan reports on our implementation of the two new listed POPs added to the Stockholm Convention in 2019—dicofol and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts, and PFOA-related compounds. New Zealand continues to actively support the goal of the Stockholm Convention
The Ocean Plastics Charter aims to bring together leading countries, sub-national governments, businesses, and civil society organisations to commit to a more resource-efficient and sustainable approach to keep plastics in the economy and out of the environment. With this charter, it aims to transition to a more sustainable and resource-efficient method of managing plastics. Through[…]
These regulations are intended to promote sustainable development, food security, and the sustainable management of fishing activities in Palau’s waters. They also intend to create economic returns, employment generation, and export earnings from the sustainable harvesting of tuna and tuna-like species by encouraging the development of domestic fishing industries and a local tuna market. These[…]