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Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… other natural products in the monastery area is not fully organic, since certain mild fertil- izers and pesticides are … used in moderation. Composting is not performed and solid organic waste is thrown out. Seeds of certain threatened … inhabited by local Sherpa people that practiced farming and herding. As the interna- tionally accepted …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… harvesting, supplementary irrigation, traditional farming techniques to protect watersheds, changing hunting … and indigenous communities mostly depend on subsistence farming and derive a substantial part of their diet from wild … of pollutants including sediments, nutrients, dissolved organic carbon, pathogens, pesticides, salt and thermal …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… Monastery is currently given over to cultivation us- ing organic farming methods. The mon- astery’s estate has been designated … ture practiced using traditional methods (and a few modern organic ones), apicul- ture, herbs and aromatic plants, …
Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report
… way for large-scale development of export-oriented prawn farming, or to be filled for use as construction land. … to degraded water quality brought about by high intensity farming, came together to form community-based societies. The …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… because it is less time consuming and makes for better farming. They also approve of the use of threshers because it … harden the soil. It also makes the soil less responsive to organic fertilizer. The bhoosa, or chaff, that is separated …
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
… become unsus tain able and many Karrayu fami lies take up farming in unsuit able land or at the margin of the irri … use, with no agree ments to date. Mean while, commer cial farming is expanding inside the park’s bound aries. The area … by the Park Authority (normally without compen sa tion), farming and land manage ment activ i ties gener ally remain …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become ill and … Trade (art. 15), the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (art. 10), and the United Nations … including the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Convention on Biological Diversity, …