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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 … 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 …
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. …
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 … both from domestic sources and from cultivation; forest logging is increas- ing the inflow of silt, while … facilities] 2.3.5 Sports fishing 2.4 Management of forest wetland types 2.4.1 Wood products 2.4.2 Non-wood …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… http://leo.informea.org/terms/forest http://leo.informea.org/terms/desert … Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention; also the 1992 Forest Principles 2(d), 5(a) and 12(d) refer to the … are not clearly defined. http://leo.informea.org/terms/biodiversity …
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 … Image copyright: Eky Chan/Shutterstock: Tropical forest in Malaysia Bonn Guidelines on Access to Genetic …
Factsheet - Traditional Knowledge, Innovation and Practices
… such valuable products include agricultural and non-wood forest products as well as handicraft. Traditional knowledge … 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 …
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 …
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 … attributes. This means that, for example, access to a forest for “conventional” timber extraction or hunting would … as a commodity – This means, for example, that access to a forest is requested for timber extraction or hunting. This …