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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 … larger than South America) have the potential for land rehabilitation and forest restoration. 45 • The cost of land …
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 … to control run-off, agroforestry, water harvesting, gulley rehabilitation, and terracing.287 The concept of “sustainable …
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 … Sustainable Land Management, Landscape Restoration and/or rehabilitation, and Ecosystem-based Approaches and Area-based …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… 28 Chapter 3 Land degradation and desertification in Western PRC … 31 3.2 Definition of land degradation and desertification … in affected areas, on improved productivity of land, and rehabilitation, conservation and sustainable management of … social, economic, legislative and political factors. The rehabilitation of heavily degraded land is a slow process and …
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 … communities: recovery of so-called traditional know-how, rehabilitation of the rights of local actors over natural … such as the right to access and cultivate a parcel of land. The attribution of certain individual possession rights …
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 … of its objectives the need “to improve the conser- vation, rehabilitation and sustainable use of soils”. In 2002, the …
CBD: Measures for Conservation and Sustainable Use - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Development and Environment, of Physical Planning, Land and Forest Management and of Agriculture, Animal … a view to furthering the protection of these areas; The rehabilitation and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the … microorganisms; Adoption of measures for the recovery and rehabilitation of threatened species and for their …
ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… forests, planted forests, the restoration, management and rehabilitation of degraded and secondary tropical 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 …
Towards sustainable fisheries law: a comparative analysis
… season, (f ) fishing fleet surveillance systems, (g) rehabilitation of fish resources and their environment, (h) … 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. …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… 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 … parks, etc.), with a view to facilitating recovery and rehabilitation of threatened species and for their …