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Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners
… Informed Consent An indigenous peoples’ right and a good practice for local communities 2 ▲ Discussing project … 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 …
Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas
… E-mail: info@books.iucn.org www.iucn.org/bookstore Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 11 IU C N IUCN … Equity and Enhanced Conservation Guidance on policy and practice for Co-managed Protected Areas and Community … nature of the ecosystem; they include areas with high agricultural biodiversity among crops and livestock). n …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… 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 … are rapidly disappearing and hardly any individuals still practice classic foraging. Land rights movements have been …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… on them. Their customary laws, established by communal practice and usage for generations and passed down through … 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 …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… that has been defined as a “cumulative body of knowledge, practice and belief, evolving by adaptive processes and … 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 …
Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report
… for conservation of water, forests and maintenance of agricultural biodiversity. Centralised policies affecting agricultural patterns with the objective of expanding … where grassland management was a strong traditional practice before breaking down a few decades back. …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… and influencing people. Yolngu people today still practice their heritage in this traditional way, using it to … 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 …
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
… to discrimination under law and policies as well as in practice. 2 PART 2 GENERAL MATTERS 5 3. Equity and justice: … 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 …
On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… 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 … lives and then decide whether to accept it or not. But in practice this is habitually ignored - leading to conflict. …