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Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for … conservation Nature Based Solutions to Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought 2nd Edition, November 2015 IUCN … Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for …
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 … the world declare that climate change impacts – like land degradation and drought - are national security issues.2 • In …
Safeguarding indigenous lands, territories and resources from unsustainable developments
… be lost or severely degraded if current deforestation and degradation rates continue; STRESSING the importance of the … NOTING the many examples in which indigenous peoples’ land/sea use planning approaches, such as 'Indigenous Life … unsustainable developments as well as other forms of land and ecosystem degradation; 2. RECOMMENDS that …
Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide
… IUCN Publications Services Unit Front cover photo: Soil degradation and reclamation at Kjolur, Iceland, Dr Andres … 2. Protection and security for occupiers and owners 84 3. Land management 86 4. Land and soil agreements 88 5. Markets and farmer …
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 … inertia. 10. Social inequalities and environmental degradation tend to lead to mutual reinforcement. Wealth, as … such as the right to access and cultivate a parcel of land. The attribution of certain individual possession rights …
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 … Subsidies and credits that favour deforestation or forest degradation should be identified and progressively …
Implementing Sustainable Bioenergy Production. A Compilation of Tools and Approaches
… bioenergy agenda (governments, businesses, communities, land owners, and individuals) the tools to achieve more … concerns are at root triggered by demand for additional land for producing bioenergy, which may have a number of … methodological frameworks; addressing deforestation and degradation requires a coherent policy-practice loop to be in …