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Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing Thomas Greiber, Sonia Peña Moreno, … 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 …
Introduction to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits
… seabed. The sovereignty of a state extends, beyond its land territory and its internal waters, to a belt of sea … coastal state comprises the submerged prolongation of the land territory of the coastal state - the seabed and subsoil … contribution to marine pollution load (by mass) are: land-based (82%), vessel-based (9%), dumping of waste at sea …
Policy Brief - Bioscience at a Crossroads: Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing in a Time of Scientific Technological and Industry Chang
… and Rachel Wynberg Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefi t Sharing in a Time of Scientifi c, … force of the CBD. It became clear that industry demand for access and the odds of developing a commercial product were … change, population growth, shrinking areas of arable land and the rapid erosion of agrobiodiversity. Greater …
Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty
… modules of the series. 1 The Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft … 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 …
Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual
… aimed explicitly at World Heritage managers and staff. • Access to dedicated support units at UNESCO Headquarters in … 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 …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… Protocol.4 Under the International Treaty, facilitated access to genetic resources that are included in the … 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 …
Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India
… of India of ecosystems. For instance, when forest land is diverted or Afforestation (CA) over at least equal land area as the diverted forest land. In addition, a Net … level of dependence on the forests, market or demand, access to technology for extraction and processing and socio- …
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 … environment. If there are any difficulties in obtaining access to such information, the Ramsar Bureau, and the …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… types of legal regimes resulting in restrictions to access in, and using available genetic resources – thus … Goals 1 (no poverty), 2 (zero hunger) and 15 (life on land). 1.2.3 The farming context argument Farmers, … challenges. Farming is intrinsically linked to access to land, water and other input factors, such as labour, …