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Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation

… and Nuclear Safety BR Biosphere reserve CAP Common Agricultural Policy CBD Convention on Biological Diversity … relevance to this region, spanning 13,000 km of the land behind the former Iron Curtain, from the Barents Sea in … Ecologist. 2 Landscape Ecologist, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany. to much research …
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Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts

… and processing. As coconut grows in coastal areas valuable land is not removed from agriculture. Ecosystem preservation … will be felt primarily through: storm damage to equipment; agricultural disruption; changes in the growth rates of … riparian buffer strips to manage pollution loadings from agricultural lands into rivers today and establishing …
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Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level

… 3 1 Ownership of Land, Forest and Carbon … global deforestation. Deforestation is driven chiefly by agricultural conversion, forest product and natural resource … as the incentives provided could not compete with agricultural profits.17 The persistent availability of …
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Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty

… weather conditions. The need to adopt ecologically sound agricultural practices is being increasingly recognized by … that most governments have recognized the importance of agricultural biodiversity for sustained food security, and … to agriculture, the most important ones include changes in land use, replacement of traditional varieties by modern …
26 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

The economic value of wild resources in Senegal : A preliminary evaluation of non-timber forest products, game and freshwater fisheries

… take account of the full costs and benefits of alternative land uses. This report presents a summary of findings of … Cooperation of the Netherlands DISA Division of Agricultural Statistics DOPM Department of Oceanography and … and Development-Sahel ISRA Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research ITA Institute of Food Technology IUCN …
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The Futures of Privately Protected Areas

… between 2000 and 2010, including ownership type 22 4. Land ownership of the NABU-Stiftung Nationales Naturerbe, … as a condition of resource use (e.g. as part of forest or agricultural certification systems). Incentive schemes are … Temporary measures, such as short-term grant-funded agricultural set-asides, rotations in commercial forest …
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Depend on nature: Ecosystem services supporting human livelihoods

… with a poor or bad EWI cover almost half of the planet’s land and inland water surface. Those with a medium EWI cover … impacts on the productivity of about 16% of the globe’s agricultural land. Combining the updated maps with existing … • 5-80% of original mangrove lost • 20% decrease since pre-agricultural times • since 1980, at least 10% decline in …
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Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for … out by Geist and Lambin (2004), 95% highlighted that agricultural activities or agrarian land uses are the key … loss of sessile animal species Urabe et al., 2013 Storms Agricultural systems Coffee yield loss Philpott et al., 2008 …
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ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime

… 194 a. Fisheries Order, 2009 b. Forests Act, Chapter 46 c. Agricultural Pests and Noxious Plants Act, Chapter 43 d. … any forest produce or minerals; e. clear or break up any land for cultivation or any other purpose; f. poison or … and Treasure Trove Act, Chapter 31, Revised Edition 2002 2 Agricultural Pests and Noxious Plants Act, Chapter 43, 1971 3 …
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Global Warming of 1.5°C - an IPPC special report on the impacts of global warming

… the global annual average is being experienced in many land regions and seasons, including two to three times higher … indigenous peoples, and local communities dependent on agricultural or coastal livelihoods (high confidence). … Land area of bioenergy crops in 2050 (million hectare) Agricultural CH4 emissions in 2030 (% rel to 2010) in 2050 (% …
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