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Cuban agriculture needs young people
HAVANA, Cuba, 22 May 2013 (IPS) - When Gabriela Blanco tells other Cubans that she works in an organic vegetable cooperative and is getting ready to study agronomy at the university, she gets surprised looks.

Cuba's sugar mills get new lease of life
MEJICO, Cuba, 22 May 2013 (BBC) - It is a sight the people of Mejico thought they would never see again - sugar cane pouring onto a conveyer belt, beneath chimneys pouring smoke into a bright blue sky.

World's biggest wave farm approved for Western Isles
LONDON, UK, 22 May 2013 (BBC) - Full consent has been given for a 40MW farm off the north-west coast of Lewis - enough to power nearly 30,000 homes.

Icelanders to get a referendum on joining the EU
LONDON, UK, 22 May 2013 (BBC) - Iceland's newly elected government has called off talks with Brussels on EU membership and promised a referendum to give Icelanders their say.

In Greenland, an urban heat island is growing fast
WASHINGTON, US, 22 May 2013 (AMC) - Since the world started waking up to the reality of climate change, the way we see Greenland has changed.

Puerto Rico promises Culebra Island more independence
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, 22 May 2013 (AP) -  Puerto Rico’s tiny island of Culebra has been forever dependent on the U.S. territory for food, jobs and health care, but the territory’s governor is cutting some of those strings.

Caribbean farming gets its roots wet
BASSETERRE, Nevis, 21 May 2013 (IPS) - As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more profitable.

ISLAND DYNAMICS
Third conference 14-18 May, 2013, Famagusta, Cyprus

NORTH ATLANTIC FORUM
Rural tourism conference 13-15 June, 2013, Holar, Iceland

USP
12th Pacific Science Association Inter-Congress 8-12 July, 2013, Suva, Fiji

SICRI
9th International Small Island Cultures conference 10-13 July, 2013, Tual, Kei Islands, Eastern Indonesia

HAWAII
21st Annual Hawaii Conservation conference 16-18 July, 2013, Honolulu

APCE SUMMIT & EXPO
Islands & Isolated Communities Congress 9-11 Sept, 2013, Honolulu, Hawaii

IGU ISLANDS COMMISSION
Island Development conference 1-4 Oct, 2013, Penghu Archipelago, Taiwan

SPREP
9th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation & Protected Areas, 2-16 Dec 2013, Suva, Fiji

ISISA
Islands of the World XIII conference 27-30 May, 2014, Jersey

SIDS
3rd International Conference on SIDS 2014, Apia, Samoa

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