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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 … to formal breeding processes. It has been noted that the loss of biological diversity is parallel by the loss of … published about traditional knowledge and relevance to biodiversity and development, e.g. authored by Abramovitz for …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… and hunger, achieving justice and equality, and halting loss of biodiversity. These goals are the most ambitious targets for … or used; • access to and benefit-sharing related to biodiversity and other natural resources; • many forms of …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity 1.4 The Convention on Access to Information, … management. These interests range from the conservation of biodiversity and specific endangered species and their … necessary, and provide full compensation for any resulting loss or injury (article 16). Other useful standards can also …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… being promoted as a methodology that integrates the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services into an overall strategy … management, energy, agriculture, health, risk management, biodiversity conservation, etc.) and levels (i.e., global, … on canopy From intercepted TranspirationInterception loss Direct throughfall Source: Adapted from: FAO Mountainous …
Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners
… also the stewards of natural resources and guardians of biodiversity. This has brought increased interest to … PEOPLES THE STEWARDS OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND GUARDIANS OF BIODIVERSITY AND THEIR RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT AS A BASIC HUMAN … of small farmers and landless peasants. The resulting loss of biodiversity (from replacing instead of improving the …
Introduction to International Environmental Governance (IEG) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… across a wide range of sectors, including air, water, biodiversity, waste management, chemicals, and horizontal … degradation manifested in problems such as deforestation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, soil erosion, decreasing quality and …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… 2 Water stress can be measured as follows: low (10% loss of total available water), moderate (loss of 10 to 20%), … built and the earth is cultivated using water, soil and biodiversity. In this respect, each one of us lives within a … waste products and spillages, with an impact on coastal biodiversity, • make it impossible to develop sustainable …
Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual
… Land law Agriculture law Protected areas law Biodiversity law, including access to genetic resources … companies to compensate the upland communities for the loss of their livelihoods when shifting cultivation and … of all of this upfront investment, it will be a huge loss if your companies have to stop logging in concessions …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… and serious intimidation to community members, and the loss of food security. The NHRCT designated its Subcommittee … on the collective, stating that “Nature and its biodiversity, the environment and the national heritage are …