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3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts
… The Scientifi c and Traditional Knowledge for Sustainable Development (STK4SD) Consortium … MANAGEMENT ON RUNOFF AND CROP PERFORMANCE IN CONSTRAINED INDIGENOUS SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION SYSTEMS OF … 112 SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH PROTECTION AND PROPAGATION OF INDIGENOUS LIVESTOCK BREEDS- CHOLISTANI BREED OF CATTLE AS …
Global Mercury Assessment
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 9. Major gaps in knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … for subsistence and recreational fisheries, often among indigenous peoples. Artisanal and small- scale gold mining … organisms higher in the food web. This explains why some indigenous populations that consume top marine predators such …
Ridding the world of POPs - A guide to the Stockholm Convention on POPs
… contamination builds to higher levels in these organisms. Indigenous peoples in the Arctic, whose traditional diets are … contamination builds to higher levels in these organisms. Indigenous peoples in the Arctic, whose traditional diets are … acceptable alternatives to POPs. This can involve sharing knowledge and know-how, promoting technology transfer, and …
Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Project. InforMEA is steered by the MEA Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Initiative with the support of UN … promote: human rights; the right to health; the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, … and, as appropriate, traditional knowledge, knowledge of indigenous peoples and local knowledge systems, with a view …
Convention text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury
… the particular vulnerabilities of Arctic ecosystems and indigenous communities because of the biomagnification of … contamination of traditional foods, and concerned about indigenous communities more generally with respect to the … Use of existing information exchange mechanisms to promote knowledge, best environmental practices and alternative …
Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols
… The latter has provided the key to bringing together knowledge on emissions, on the movement of pollutants between … a case where a Party, due to the high sulphur content of indigenous solid or liquid fuels, cannot meet the emission … that the Arctic ecosystems and especially its indigenous people, who subsist on Arctic fish and mammals, …