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Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy

… of the Raika Bio-cultural Protocol for Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation The Raika Bio-cultural Protocol 74 … Benefit Sharing BCP Bio-cultural Community Protocol BMC Biodiversity Management Committee CBD Convention on … contributed to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. While international regulatory frameworks are …
17 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

… of the Convention, to be a concrete example for valuing biodiversity and its ecosystem services, and for taking … and currently a Legal Adviser of the National Institute of Biodiversity in Costa Rica. Furthermore, he is Lead Counsel of the Biodiversity and Biosafety Law Research Programme at the …
17 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… agrobiodiversity in general, is promoted through community biodiversity management (CBM).3 The best way of protecting … to be carried out, including participation in 3 Community Biodiversity Management is a methodology for promoting conservation and the sustainable utilization of biodiversity at local level, with an emphasis on …
17 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Document - ABS information kit

… why is it important, and what does it cover? Glossary Biodiversity: Refers to the variability that exists among … diversity. CAse sTUdy The International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) Bioprospecting Programme in Panama … commercially-viable research into the uses of their own biodiversity. ICBG members have also passed these benefits …
17 May 2026 Document

Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document

… role in relation to each site and their possible impact on biodiversity. For many of these activi- ties, objectives are … ad- vances have been made in the management of global biodiversity, but while environmental problems have become … The role of indigenous peoples, both as custodians of biodiversity and propo- nents of cultural diversity, is …
17 May 2026 Document

The Role of Indigenous and Local Communities

… sharing of benefits arising from the use of traditional biodiversity-related knowledge, innovations and practices. … protection, preservation and maintenance of traditional biodiversity-related knowledge and the sharing of benefits … and other appropriate forms of protection of traditional biodiversity-related knowledge, innovations and practices. …
17 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Strengthening the implementation of Farmers' Right in Guatemala

… farmers. The thematic focus of the organization includes biodiversity, food security and nutrition, biosafety and … to local seeds and farmers’ rights; • Development of agro-biodiversity inventories; • Systematization of information … related to farmer communities; on-farm management and agro-biodiversity conservation. JUANITA CHAVES POSADA, 2013 It was …
17 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Factsheet - Traditional Knowledge, Innovation and Practices

… resources are found. Many of them have cultivated and used biodiversity in a sustainable way for thousands of years. … of their practices have been proven to enhance and promote biodiversity at the local level and aid in maintaining … communities to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity goes far beyond their role as natural resource …
17 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… have been the custodians and innovators of agricultural biodiversity. Through careful selection of their best seeds … and negotiated in the light of the decisions on access to biodiversity and funding mechanisms of the 1992 UN Conference … It covered domesticated, as well as undomesticated biodiversity, and entered into force on 29 December 1993. The …
17 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… level for their efforts in environmental and agricultural biodiversity protection, as keepers of traditional knowedge … published about traditional knowledge and relevance to biodiversity and development, e.g. authored by Abramovitz for … Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the Global Biodiversity Strategy: Policy-makers' Guide produced by the …
17 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity