Located in the South-Central hills of Barbados in the Caribbean, is a small low-income village called Bairds, with no more than 30 houses and 150 people who are mostly small farmers. In that village lives a young visionary by the name of Damian Hinkson, who has been experimenting with ...read more

In a meeting with UNDP in Chile last week, Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the UNCCD expressed his support to the work of the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) in land degradation in Chile and emphasized the importance of its work with local communities. During the event, ...read more

"My family will not have to die of hunger......." The prince turned into a pauper overnight when Man Bahadur Praja's 1.3 hectares of cultivable land in Makawanpur was washed away by landslide and flood in 2002. With his productive land gone, he was compelled to rely on his ...read more

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Global Mechanism (GM) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) for Community-Based Sustainable Land Management Partnership on 23 February 2006, under ...read more