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Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation TK Traditional Knowledge, which is a term for … to access TK or any other intended activity on their land, such as the establishment of a REDD project or a … rather an understanding of the self as integrated with the land and embedded within an ethical relationship. TK then is …
The long and winding road: negotiating a treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
… reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient … marine scientific research. All States, whether coastal or land-loc- ked, have the freedom of navigation and over- … ecosystem, diversity of the ecosystem or vulnerability to degradation by natural events or human activities) Social, …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… and needs 48 5.5.1 Governance in remote areas 48 5.5.2 Land tenure and ownership 49 5.5.3 Overlapping … became common to drive automobiles on lakes as well as on land, the legal problem created would involve (i) evaluating … for multiple strategies that take account of environmental degradation and local social and economic conditions (see …
Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Equity in ABS Governance
… These include, among others, differences in relation to land and resource rights, possibilities for advancement at … 10 percent of women farmers in developing countries own land.4 Box 2. The Key Role of Women in Agriculture Women … increasing scarcity of fuelwood arising from environmental degradation, land conversion and overuse of resources. …
The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources
… 80 4.7 Land and farm management … welfare guiding principles and standards focus on: (a) land transport; (b) sea transport; (c) humane slaughter for … and health. The questionnaire also provided information on land and farm 52 In most cases, the response to the … and maintaining the productive capacity and fertility of land; managing criteria for the operation of recognized …
Plant genetic resources and food security: stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
… of cultivated plants, due to massive deforestation or the degradation or contamination of natural habitats: in a … Poland, Romania, Samoa, Senegal, South Africa, Switzer- land, Tanzania (United Republic of), the United Kingdom, the … some of the largest deserts, highest mountains and deepest land depressions in the world. Although the region is …
An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, and brought together scientific, economic, and … rights regarding access to biological resources on private land or to create specific rights over the genetic resources … knowledge or any other intended activity on their land occurs according to their customary laws. Overall, BCPs …
Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… virtually all countries the rules gov- erning ownership of land and permanently constructed improvements are very … are governed by each country’s existing ‘real property’ (land and buildings) law. Neither claim is generally supported … to have focused on the latter view, assuming that national land law would be the basis for ownership of genetic …
IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources
… 36 known phyla are found in the oceans versus 17 found on land). Marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) tend … aswell asmost impacted by extinctionsand ecosystem degradation recently only have a minor contribution to this … used for ecosystem management such as rivers and pastoral land (Ostrom, 1990). Nowadays, pool systems are also …
Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… changing agricul- tural practices and loss of agricultural land. The use of genetically modified organisms in cen- tres … who is engaged in the conservation of genetic resources of land races and wild relatives of economic plants and their … or sell seeds for reproduction and replanting in their own land. Section 72 allows for the establishment of inventories …