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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… All requests for translation and adaptation rights, and for resale and other commercial use rights should be made via www.fao.org/contact‐ … livelihoods, promote human rights and mitigate risks to food security and … i. Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 …
Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?
… publication is made possible by funding from UNEP. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or … 36 Strengthening basic human development … low-output system, it makes intensive use of natural, human and social capital to produce an array of economic, …
Global Land Outlook
… 40 4 Convergence of Evidence 52 5 Land Resources and Human Security 78 PART TWO: THE OUTLOOK 104 6 Scenarios of … management, and planning for sustainable development and human security. Finally, this Outlook could not have been … grab large tracts of arable land, usually with water rights and access to transport infrastructure, as a hedge …
International trade rules and the agriculture sector: selected implementation issues
… the WTO covers trade in services and intellectual property rights, as well as trade in all goods, including agricultural … exclude from protection any "discoveries, methods of human treatment, inventions the exploitation of which would … in general are subject to various hazards, be they human- induced such as deliberate food contamination and …
Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values
… Council (FSC). Copyright © IUCN & GTZ, 2008. All rights reserved. Reproduction for non-commercial purposes is … and related agrobiodiversity has important impacts on human society and on other species (Altieri 1999). The … a wide range of impacts, including reducing the ability of human communities to survive extreme weather conditions or …
Sustainably Investing in Rangelands - Jordan
… approach in Jordanian rangelands through the « Securing Rights and Restoring Lands for Improved Liveli- hood» project … for the Conservation of Nature, Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human Development, Royal Botanic Garden, Hashemite Fund for … Investments can be seen in terms of efforts in time and by human resources, in terms of change in institutional …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… River Protection Ordinance 2002, deal with the dumping of human waste and other pollutants into freshwater sources. … (xxxix) ‘Village’ means an integrated and contiguous human habitation commonly identified by a name and includes a … the court, compound any offence under this Ordinance. 147. Rights of Citizen not affected.— Nothing contained in section …
Mitigating the impacts of oil palm expansion and operations on biodiversity
… social impacts it causes, the latter sometimes involving human rights violations; ALSO CONCERNED that oil palm is planted … systems; and e. respect internationally recognised human rights, and implement applicable environmental and …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… Box 3: Chapter IV.C of the UN-Habitat Agenda: Sustainable human settlements development in an urbanizing world ...... 8 Box 4: Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements: General Assembly Resolutions 51/177 of 16 … Parties to the Biodiversity Treaty "affirm sovereign rights over the biological resources found within their …