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Champions of Water Governance - Leadership building for local to transboundary water cooperation
… and influence, in a participatory manner; • Applying knowledge and technical skills that have enabled and … stakeholder views are aired; • Transmitting content knowledge and skills to their own networks, channelling a … a special lead- ership process focused on empowering indigenous women on water management. Working with this group …
Strategic Report: Environment, Peace and Security - a Convergence of Threats
… of environmentally sensitive commodities; InforMEA is a knowledge management platform that brings together 12 global … led to the expulsion of local populations, as the case of indigenous communities illustrates: in order to exploit an … their lands. Such processes jeopardize the existence of indigenous communities, leading to their displacement and …
A critique of transboundary natural resource management in Southern Africa
… Tevera, 2000). Colonial settlers in many countries forced indigenous people into marginal and often crowded Communal … such as the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe, Administrative … access to regional resources, markets, politics and knowledge by north- ern researchers and international …
The economic value of wild resources in Senegal : A preliminary evaluation of non-timber forest products, game and freshwater fisheries
… Dependency on wild plants and animals is obvious for indigenous communities that do not cultivate crops or raise … treatment. However, in general the young exhibit little knowledge of wild medicinal plants. Some consumers stated … of Wild Resources in Senegal Table A.4 Fauna encountered Indigenous name English Name Scientific name Mbët Sand …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… T. (1998). 'In search of forest resource values of indigenous peoples: are non-market valuation techniques … applicability of non-market valuation techniques to indigenous peoples. A conceptual model examines relationships … fail to consider their full economic benefits. Whose knowledge and whose valuations count when conducting economic …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… and developing countries. They require intensive technical knowledge as well as significant up-front investments, but … CDM AR projects, in particular because environmental and indigenous peoples’ NGOs anticipated that large plantations … applicable, information on, inter alia, local communities, indigenous peoples, land tenure, local employment, food …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… to recognize existing rights of the poor (including indigenous peoples) or grant new rights through legislative … in the landscape papers supplemented by the personal knowledge of the authors of this paper and by other sources … assessment by the communities, the project increased the knowledge of members enabling them to interact more …
Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific
… of the system into the future. To the best of our knowledge however, this funding commitment did not … Pacific Island Countries (PICs), possessing few indigenous sources of oil and gas (with the exception of … dispossession of traditional subsistence hunting areas for indigenous communities. Natural resource managers need to be …
Development of specific right to food legislation
… to food is available at: http://www.fao.org/righttofood/knowledge-centre/glossary/en 2 1.1. APPROPRiATENESS OF … for example, using their mother tongue in the case of indigenous communities. The process should begin with an … this broad obligation to fulfil: • Obligation to promote knowledge of human rights, in particular the right to food, …