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The Land in Numbers

… THE LAND IN NUMBERS LIVELIHOODS AT A TIPPING POINT FOREWORD … the numbers highlight how much we rely on productive land. Amongst other valuable services, land feeds our … in water–scarce regions and some 0.9 billion people lack access to safe water. 15 3 3 EXPLODING NEEDS IN A RESOURCE …
25 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Global Land Outlook

… GLOBAL LAN D OUTLOOK First Edition GLOBAL LAND OUTLOOK First Edition ©UNCCD, 2017 Secretariat of the … Partners GLO Contributing Partners THE ECONOMICS OF LAND DEGRADATION The objective of the United Nations … large tracts of arable land, usually with water rights and access to transport infrastructure, as a hedge against future …
25 May 2026 Literature

Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought

Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities … conservation Nature Based Solutions to Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought 2nd Edition, November 2015 IUCN … Loss of land and other natural resources and reduced access to these lands and their natural resources have major …
25 May 2026 Literature

Safeguarding indigenous lands, territories and resources from unsustainable developments

… NOTING the many examples in which indigenous peoples’ land/sea use planning approaches, such as 'Indigenous Life … of adequate approaches, including fair and equitable access to information and meaningful participation by … unsustainable developments as well as other forms of land and ecosystem degradation; 2. RECOMMENDS that …
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Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide

… 2. Protection and security for occupiers and owners 84 3. Land management 86 4. Land and soil agreements 88 5. Markets and farmer … and use rights; Common property rights regimes include: access, communal property, private property, State prop- …
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Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor

… the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity 1.4 The Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in … 5.4 Protecting wildlife from harmful processes and land uses 5.5 Wildlife health 5.6 Human-wildlife conflicts 55 … (ownership and use rights and obligations, links with land and forest tenure), public participation in wildlife …
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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests

… CBD in 2000, states that the objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal … and sub- national policymakers, decision-makers and land-use planners. Principle 9 contains specific advice for … 5: Decentralization, forest tenure and natural resource access rights Decentralized management and improved …
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CITES and CBNRM. Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”

… Ababa Principles and Guidelines ABS The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing ABS ICNP Intergovernmental … across other high priority issues such as climate change, land degradation, hazardous chemicals and wastes and ozone … can detrimentally impact upon biodiversity. Changes in land use and climate, pollution, habitat degradation and …
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Towards sustainable fisheries law: a comparative analysis

… It appears to forbid completely unregulated open access regimes, and insofar does create a norm. On the other … 32 The Indonesians call their homeland Tanah Air Kita (Our Land and Water). It is made up of 18,108 islands (based on … of Madura and Bali, accounts for around 7% of Indonesia’s land area, but is populated by 59.5% of the total population. …
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Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies

… of nature; • they were elitist, failing to consider the land rights and sophisticated resource management of … of local populations; prohibited or restricted access to livelihood; break-up of communal lands; collapse of … such as the right to access and cultivate a parcel of land. The attribution of certain individual possession rights …
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