This report was prepared to better understand the implication of climate change for tourism in the Caribbean and the options for addressing these projected impacts. Concentrated on Bartbados, the report addresses the impact of sea level rise on the coastal elements of country's tourism product and changing precipitation and consumption patterns on the available potable water supply on which the tourism industry and the population of Barbados depend.
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This assessment of progress towards the MDGs in Grenada is meant to provide information on country progress on MDG achievement. The consultant was required to work closely with the Ministry of Finance in Grenada, the Millennium Development Goals National Committee (MDGNC) and the UNDP Barbados and the OECS SRO.
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This report provides a summary of governance and livelihoods research conducted as part of the Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment (FORCE) project.
In this country report for Barabdos, over 500 interviews and surveys were completed as part of this study, including interviews with community members, fishing and tourism resource users, recreational divers, government agents, and representatives of NGOs.
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There is a paucity of shared scientific information on the likely impacts of climate change on fisheries in the Eastern Caribbean.
Small-scale fisheries can play an important role with respect to key development issues such as poverty alleviation, food security and pro-poor growth especially in small island developing states.
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Hurricane Ivan struck Grenada on September 7, 2004 and one year later a group of researchers undertook an analysis of the impact of relief work.
Large-scale efforts had been mounted by Grenadian Government agencies, the private sector and civil society in Grenada. Several bilateral and multi-lateral agencies as well as international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provided considerable assistance.
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The objectives of the project were the preparation of drought-relevant base documentation, the development of operative web-based tools and drought information material for Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago and the conduction of training activities and two capacity building workshops on both study sites.
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As described in the preceding chapter, food systems link agriculture, environmental sustainability, and nutrition. Interest in how food systems can do more to reduce malnutrition in all its forms has increased substantially since the Global Nutrition Report 2014 was issued. The Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) in November 2014, for example, focused extensively on food systems, as did a number of recent reports.
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The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention coverage, food supply, economics, and demography. This tool is particularly useful for nutrition champions at the country-level, as it presents a wide range of evidence needed to assess country progress in improving nutrition and nutrition-related outcomes.
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Barbados has been extremely successful in its embrace of solar water heating: saving millions of dollars in imported fossil fuel costs and millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, thanks to the expansion of this climate compatible technology. In this CDKN Inside Story, Seizing the sunshine – Barbados’ thriving solar water heater industry, Will Bugler of Acclimatise explores the factors that encouraged Barbados’ homes and businesses to establish and expand their use of solar water heating – an
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This publication is designed to increase the base of knowledge about the characteristics and functions of the energy sector in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. This work on the energy matrix and sector governance of each country in the Caribbean was carried out in parallel to similar work for the rest of the Latin American and Caribbean region. However, the methodology for this region varies slightly from country to country as there is no single set of comparable data for all the nations in this group.