SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUCCESS STORIES

Sustainable Agriculture, Forest Management, and Community Initiatives Success Stories
The U. S. Department of Agriculture is working with the National Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils (NARC&DC) to prepare a collection of stories about sustainable agriculture, forest management, and community initiatives that integrate social, economic and environmental concerns.

Working for a Sustainable Work: U.S. Government Initiatives to Promote Sustainable Development
This report distills the results of a survey of 400 sustainable development initiatives supported by the U.S. Government. While the survey is not exhaustive, it reveals a wide range of U.S. departments and agencies making substantial commitments to achieve sustainable development using varied and novel strategies in practically all developing and transition countries. Further, the survey shows the U.S. Government is working to leverage economic and social resources from the private, nonprofit, and academic communities. U.S. policy, reflecting broad international consensus on how to promote sustainable development, rests on three pillars: fostering economic growth, investing in people (particularly education and health), and promoting stewardship of natural resources.

Energy and Water for Sustainable Living
This report presents case studies on energy and water technology applications to illustrate how sustainable development can flourish in developing countries when principles of good governance are present. It also illustrates that funding from both the private and the public sectors flows to areas where principles of good governance are operating.

Compendium of LAND and Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) Cases
This report has been compiled as a supporting document to the Task Managers' Report to Commission on Sustainable Development +10 on the Land and Agriculture Cluster for Chapters 10, 12 and 14 of Agenda 21. The report draws together 63 cases from 39 countries illustrating the many features of Land Management and SARD implementation.

Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) Success Stories
Since 1997 the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), through its Secretariat, has been recording successful efforts to implement Agenda 21. This is the fourth volume of sustainable development success stories compiled using information submitted over the past year. Our practice is to focus the success stories on Agenda 21 topics currently being discussed by the CSD. These success stories are collected and presented to the CSD to help share positive experiences and encourage information about sustainable development. They are a way to recognize the commitment demonstrated by a diversity of groups including NGOs, UN Agencies, Women's groups, Local Authorities, Governments and Indigenous People, as well as partnerships between them.