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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… Human made wetlands include irrigated lands, ponds for agriculture and livestock, aquaculture installations, rivers … medicinal plants; the provision of fertile land for agriculture; water supply for domestic, arable, pastoral or … The economic damage was estimated at US$139 million for agriculture (in the South-Baden valley alone, due to …
21 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation

… 21 3.3.6 Law on Agriculture (1998) … waterways. (Article 23) The law designates the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry as the authority responsible for … Category II may be given by the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture; Category III may be given by the provinces as …
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RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions

… 3: Laws and institutions 15 activity (e.g., fishing, agriculture or ecotourism) may be consistent with wise use … the activities themselves. Relevant sectors may include agriculture, forestry, fisheries, public health, territorial … be benign (e.g., incentives for environmentally sensitive agriculture) or potentially harmful (e.g., wetland drainage, …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development

… places to drain and convert to more obvious uses, such as agriculture. But the process had gone so far in the developed … - especially where fertile plains were created for agriculture. Such transformations were irresistible to … of Hunting and Nature Conservation in the USSR Ministry of Agriculture and the Secretary of the IUCN Commission on …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Introduction to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks

… European Geoparks Network EU European Union FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) GEF Global … Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture IUCN International Union for Conservation of … agricultural heritage systems, in 2002, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) …
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Ramsar Convention Manual, 6th Edition

… 10 harvest is linked to the health of wetland areas); agriculture, through the maintenance of water tables and … has occurred recently between Ramsar and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization … as Wetlands of International Importance Resolution VIII.34 Agriculture, wetlands and water resource management …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Securing the future for global peatlands

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Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 8 - Cultural values

… an absolute necessity forsurvival. With the emergence of agriculture, the availability of adequate water became an … and infrastructure; S Primary uses of wetland resources – agriculture, livestock rearing, fishing and aquaculture, …
21 Jun 2026 Document

World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 1: Wetlands: A natural safeguard against disasters

… to restore degraded wetlands and to encourage sustainable agriculture, tourism and fishing practices. 2. Coping When an …
21 Jun 2026 Document