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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

… to discrimination under law and policies as well as in practice. 2 PART 2 GENERAL MATTERS 5 3. Equity and justice: … investments in these resources, increasing sustainable agricultural production and generating higher incomes. States … in developing countries provide a major share of agricultural investments that contribute significantly to …
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Review of laws, policies and economic instruments related to payment for ecosystem services in Vietnam

… for ecosystem services approaches to be successful in practice, and for them to be acceptable to decision-makers, … Article 48). A community does not pay land use fees for agricultural land assigned to it (Land Law 2003, Article … use rights Rights in land that is used for annual agricultural crops, aquaculture or salt-making may be …
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Review of the compatibility of sectoral laws with the right to food

… content of a future law with the right to food. This is a practice that helps to ensure that future legislation will … interfere in people’s capacity to feed themselves. In practice, owing to the complexity of the subject and limited … have access to monitoring reports and findings? - In practice, does everyone have access to the justice system …
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The Green Customs Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… of international conventions, other instruments and best-practice approaches in seeking to harmonise and simplify … field trials, undertaking commercial-scale production of agricultural LMOs, releasing transgenic fish, or deliberately … modified organism that represents a large category of agricultural commodities. These LMOs are intended to be …
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Procedures for monitoring the right to food

… opinions, assessments or judgements made by people. In practice and in the context of certain human rights, this … for disaster management. - National policy statement on agricultural production. - Protection of labour conditions …
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Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services : Guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas

… +41 22 999 0000 Fax: +41 22 999 0002 www.iucn.org Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 28 IUCN WCPA’s … rapid rate of conversion, intense land use pressures (agricultural residential and industrial), localised flooding, … spatial analysis of ES. The study area is primarily agricultural (~57 per cent), with increasing settled areas …
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Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… includes many aspects of impact assessment, already common practice without necessarily being described as biodiversity. … or cultivated species, and species with medicinal, agricultural, or other economic, social, cultural or … of such a trigger would be trade liberalisation in the agricultural sector and the effects this might have on …
31 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles

… to a given scheme and applying the methodology in practice. The PDD and methodology are then submitted to the … of AR activities Agroforestry refers to systems of mixing agricultural or horticultural crops and/or livestock with … perennials. Integrating trees on farms into the wider agricultural landscape can improve the balance between food …
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Capacity Development for Protected and Other Conserved Areas in the Pacific Islands Region: Strategy and Action Framework 2015-2020

… ry of broader common principles and themes that emerge from practice, which  … Fit‐for‐purpose   Use proven techniques, tools, practice case studies, and resources already  … courses that are relevant to the practice of planning and management of protected and other  …
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Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues

… by August 1988 floods ravaged the same region. Although agricultural demand for water is often season- al, demand for … are many examples of dam develop- ments demonstrating good practice against sustainability criteria. For example, the 50 … but this could compromise other ecosystem services, such agricultural production (Acreman et al. 2001) – presenting a …
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