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Dramatic growth in laws to protect environment, but widespread failure to enforce, finds report

24 Jan 2019 News in

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 …
17 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

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 …
17 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
01 Sep 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

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 …
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Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual

… ƒ Land law ƒ Agriculture law ƒ Protected areas law ƒ Biodiversity law, including access to genetic resources ƒ … 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 …
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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 …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance