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Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… Community Protocols in the Context of Payment for Ecosystem Services CHAPTER 7 Bio-cultural Jurisprudence The … Services FAO Food and Agriculture Organization FCPF Forest Carbon Partnership Facility FPIC Free, Prior and … Areas REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation TK Traditional Knowledge, which is a term …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… of collection practices that damage or destroy the ecosystem under study. While these issues, and the entire … the terms and con- ditions as if for the collection of forest products.106 There is no appreciation of the potential … resource issues (generally treating the matter as a forest extraction contract), key issues relating to the …
ABS Elements. Elements to facilitate domestic implementation of Access and Benefit-Sharing for different subsectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture
… (2) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture; (3) forest genetic resources for food and agriculture; (4) … for most subsectors of GRFA, including aquatic and forest genetic resources where breeding technologies play an … Technical Working Groups on Plant, Animal, and Forest Genetic Resources, in reviewing the distinctive …
Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… is a lose-lose proposition 278 7.2.5 Losing the forest for the trees? Tropical biodiversity is a disappearing … resource contract (direct permis- sion to cut trees in the forest, and quarry stone in the mountains), or a purchase … able use situations, as a way of ensuring that any ecosystem harm caused by the ‘sustainable user’ will be …
Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… tertiary gene pools somewhat fuzzy (see Maynard, C. 1996. Forest Genetics Glossary). The paragraph acknowledges that … (species diversity) and the interrelationships of life (ecosystem diver- sity). In other words, the CBD is the … of genetically important wild crop relatives situated in forest habitats (for exam- ple, the Mazatlan Biosphere …
Beyond access : Exploring implementation of the fair and equitable sharing commitment in the CBD
… relationship between a genetic resource’s uniqueness, its ecosystem and its value 92 5.5.2 The CBD – an obligation to … mational) are primary in each situation. 292 FAO, 1995, “Forest Management Legislative Development in Tonga” (FAO) … Financial Mechanisms for Water Services from Forests” (Forest Trends). 78 5.2.2 Excludability of the micro-physical …
A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows
… say, in many tropical regions it is easier to cut a forest than to study it.”31 That salvo is immediately … systems are those relating to the certification of forest and marine products – both of which ultimately result … in con- sumer products that are easily identified. If forest- product certification (or marine-product …
Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Equity in ABS Governance
… biodiversity, including their leading role in farming and forest conservation, as well as in the maintenance and … in Uttar Pradesh showed that men primarily use gathered forest plants for fodder and mulch for agriculture, and … Consultation Processes Suffering disproportionately from forest impoverishment, women, although reticent to take part …
Addressing the problems of access : Protecting sources, while giving users certainty
… issue or refuse licenses or permits to take or remove forest products or other flora in a man- ner that has the … an exclusive or preferential right to take or remove forest products or other flora referred in the agreement. … protection of plant varieties, germplasm, food security, forest, etc.; the protection of local communities; national …
The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources
… to food and agriculture, and those constituting the agro-ecosystem: the variety and variability of animals, plants and … organisms, necessary to sustain key functions of the agro-ecosystem, its structure and processes. Agrobiodiversity is … between the ministries of environment, agriculture and forest (such as The legal framework for the management of …