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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… Euro-Med Participatory Water Resources Scenarios FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations … FECOFUN Federation of Community Forest Users (Nepal) FIAN Food First Information and Action Network FIELD Foundation … development and environment NGOs on issues of food security, agro-biodiversity, environment and water …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 2 Reptiles and Invertibrates
… 1985; Gruss and Waller, 1986); local utilisation as a food source may also have an adverse effect in conjunction … (Salas, 1985). Said to be exported to Santiago (Chile) for food use (Auffenberg, 1969). In the 1970s very large numbers … are laid. Threats to this species appear to be hunting for food (eggs and meat) and possibly capture for the pet trade. …
Biodiversity Risks and Opportunities in the Apparel Sector
… growth), increasing consumption, indirect drivers (i.e. food, shelter, water and energy needs), and direct pressures … Expansion of cotton production can also negatively impact food security, particularly where it may compete with food crops in food insecure regions - but as a cash crop it …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… Board (of CDM) EIA environmental impact assessment FAO Food and Agriculture Organization FSC Forestry Stewardship … rights, such as the rights to life, health, water, food, and nondiscrimination.2 Countermeasures that aim at … that ensures their well-being and a decent life, including food, clothing, housing, services and the right to a healthy …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… is poverty? 5 Box 3. The value of wild resources 6 Box 4. Food security and diversity from Laotian forests 7 Box 5. … There have been improvements in some areas, such as global food security, but these improvements do not amount to … significantly dependent “on wildlife for livelihood and food security, particularly through bushmeat and tourism.” …
State of Biodiversity in West Asia
… plant protein, thus contributing extensively to meeting food requirements in the region. Arid ecosystems also offer … population. Wheat alone accounts for one third of global food production (International Centre for Agricultural … species of plants only 200 species are domesticated food sources and only 15–20 species are of major economic …
EU Environmental Policies and Strategies in South-Eastern Europe - Training guidelines for involving CSOs from SEE in the implementation of EU nature-related legislation
… management infrastructure and provide flood control, offer food sources, and stabilize soil to prevent or reduce … production in order to: a) guarantee the supply of food for all citizens, and b) provide a reasonable standard … six EU Member States were self-sufficient in all main food commodities. However, as the number of EU Member States …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 1 Mammals
… about 700 g> and consequently is far less persecuted as a food source than the larger monkeys (but more so than the … for farmer-settlers to move in. Hunting C. petaurlsta for food is common and widespread (Asibey, 1974). There was, in … and hunters killed everything they could, mainly for food (Jeffrey, 19/7; Verschuren, 1983). At Mount Nimba, …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… mountain gardens and provided manual labour in return for food and a share of the harvests. The Gebaliya continue to … still aim to use gardens as a significant source of food, irrigating them from hand-dug wells where water levels … order to conserve the Sinai Baton Blue butterfly and its food plant. They did this as the result of a research project …