UGANDA COALITION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - E-Bulletin for August 2009

Microsoft Word - FinalUCSDEbulletinAugust2009 UGANDA COALITION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT E-Bulletin for August 2009 Monthly News Bulletin from the Secretariat of Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development (UCSD) Rio and beyond… Seal the Deal! is a powerful new campaign by the UN Campaign on Climate Change, to encourage Governments to agree on a fair, balanced and effective climate agreement wh. [...] Appreciating the challenges most of our African countries experience accessing internet (only a few East Africans have signed up to date!), the UN has asked UCSD through the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) to facilitate sign up on the printed out petition forms in Uganda, that will be sent back to the UN for entry into the online system. [...] Alternatively one can also sign up online: http://www.sealthedeal2009.org Sign Up! : UCSD volunteers on The Seal the Deal! Campaign Read full stories of the Read full stories of the Read full stories of the Read full stories of the UCSD‘s UCSD‘s UCSD‘s UCSD‘s August August August August 2009200920092009 EEEE----BBBBulletinulletinulletinulletin, , , , plusplusplusplus moremoremoremore Civil Society. [...] SusWatch at the 2nd World Agroforestry Conference in Nairobi August 23 – 28, 2009 The 2nd World Congress on Agro forestry on the theme: “Agroforestry – The Future of Global Land Use”, took place in Nairobi, Kenya, August 24 – 28, 2009 to assess opportunities to leverage scientific agroforestry in promoting sustainable land use worldwide around the themes: Food Security and Livelihoods; Conservatio. [...] For the SusWatch participants, is was also a moment to highlight the high deforestation trends, declining land quality and food productivity in the LVB and East African in general, as well as learning and sharing more experiences on how agroforestry can be a possibility / option for long term investment to reduce poverty and to restore the fast degrading ecosystems.