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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 … Forum Water Initiative, 2011, p. 11. 29. HLPE: Land tenure and international investments in agriculture. A report …
25 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

The Role of Indigenous and Local Communities

… Tinoc, Ifugao Philippines have been revitalizing customary land use and territorial management using culturally-defined … e.g. on linguistic diversity, traditional occupations, land tenure and land use change. Data generated includes cultural …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… March 2015, Cancún, Mexico “Combating desertifi cation/land degradation and drought for poverty reduction and … Mexico http://3sc.unccd.int “Combating desertification/land degradation and drought for poverty reduction and … factor is always the limited size of cropland. The land tenure dynamics in these areas have led to the formation of …
25 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands … of Natural Protected Areas (SERNANP). However, land tenure continues to be debated, and the legitimacy of the …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… issue of generic human rights, such as those related to land tenure, access to water and mineral resources, health care, … diverse farming systems have been shaped by physical land limitations, the combination of varied topographies and …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… production constitutes 85 per cent of the agricultural land used, with several different varieties grown. The local … rice) a year because she has been able to access more land. She leases land from the local school, and due to the … systems; and voluntary guidelines on the governance of tenure. vi. The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

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

… - lakes, ponds, rivers and coastal fringes - and any land which is regularly or intermittently covered or … and it is governments who, in various ways, control land use within their borders. It is therefore surprising how … type, general description, principal vegetation, land tenure, protection, land use, importance to waterfowl and to …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty

… to agriculture, the most important ones include changes in land use, replacement of traditional varieties by modern … intensification, increased population, poverty, land degradation and environmental change (including climate … protected area in question and ensure the long-term land tenure required for in situ conservation to be effective. …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

… rights regarding access to biological resources on private land or to create speci!c rights over the genetic resources … knowledge or any other intended activity on their land occurs according to their customary laws. Overall, BCPs … approaches with other key processes related to land tenure and resource ownership; and ! development of tools to …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity