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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
… Guidelines on the responsible Governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the Context of national food … investments in these resources, increasing sustainable agricultural production and generating higher incomes. States … in developing countries provide a major share of agricultural investments that contribute significantly to …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… Settled Areas to be eaten by the ibex Kanal – measure of land equivalent to 605 square yards Kasabgar – artisan Khabo … areas, the zaitu is responsible only for the protection of agricultural crops and in other areas, he has additional … Particularly in single cropping areas, with less agricultural possibilities, livestock is a very important …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… traditional peoples to the use of certain resources and land, to knowledge, technology, power, decision making, … times of acute climatic crises, people often shift their agricultural activities to more favourable areas. The Makushi … and agriculture putting not only themselves but also their agricultural production at risk. Persistent droughts may also …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… Lee Ellen Carter How protection took the beauty from the land: conflicting values and meanings of Lake Mburo National … connected. It is apparent that biological diversity in agricultural systems was higher in earlier times and has been … considerably as traditional agriculture and types of agricultural technolo- gies have declined. From the outset of …
On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… DEADLY ENVIRONMENT: THE KILLING AND CRIMINALIZATION OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS WORLDWIDE ON DANGEROUS … where communities are being encroached on by ranches and agricultural plantations or gangs of illegal loggers. The … way to thousands of illegal logging camps2 whilst the agricultural frontier is pushing further into previously …
Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners
… Informed Consent (FPIC) before enacting projects on their land. This is in defence of their ancestral territories and … changing the course of rivers, the reduced ability of agricultural systems to produce food, disease, hunger, … Free, Prior and Informed Consent Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Deutsche Gesellschaft für …
Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report
… whether this order has really affected the powerful and land hungry encroachers, it has created absolute havoc in the … for conservation of water, forests and maintenance of agricultural biodiversity. Centralised policies affecting agricultural patterns with the objective of expanding …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… of case studies 27 IndIgenous peoples 27 Power on this land; managing sacred sites at Dhimurru Indigenous Protected … houses, etc. have been constructed there, while the local agricultural econo- my is on the way to being transformed in- … 9. The implementation of rational rules governing agricultural practice3, such as cultivation in ranks, the …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… from The Christensen Fund, LTS International, The Sacred Land Film Project, UNESCO and WWF International. Published … of the latter are the globally important ingenious agricultural heritage systems, many of which are attributed … As elaborated by the International Fund for Agricultural Development,31 “Free, prior and informed consent …
Sacred Natural Sites – Support for custodian protocols and customary laws in the face of global threats and challenges
… Sites: Guidelines for Protected Area Managers as “Areas of land or water having special spiritual significance to … faith groups, may also have longstanding relationships to land and sacred natural sites and may not be recognized as …