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… 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 … large inputs of labour and time, and vast areas of land to contain adequate sam- ples of the genetic variability …

… on the part of the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, or IUCN concerning the legal status of any … reflect those of Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea or IUCN. This publication has been made possible … by funding from the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea. Published by: IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and …

… 76 4.7 Land … taking stock of corporate water behaviour Discussion Paper land management. For water stewardship to work, private … catchment/basin level, including for medium/long-term. • land/planning laws: allocation of land and terms of occupation/ ownership. • Compliance regime: …

… success or failure, humanity and the planet need as much land as possible that is unspoiled (or nearly un-spoiled), to … but have not benefited from conservation efforts like the land surface of the planet. Overfishing, the use of … the coastal zones, the pressure of population growth, land ownership and competition between different business …

… then Principal Legal Adviser and Chief, Biodiversity and Land Law and Governance Unit at the UNEP-Division of … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities, National Cleaner Production Centres, … with Article 3, paragraph 8 (b) Those Parties for which land-use change and forestry (all emissions by sources and …

… Antarctica, for example is considered terra nullius or land that is not the sovereign territory of any country, like … • climate change • international waters • ozone • land degradation • persistent organic pollutants Capacity … meeting, the Instrument was amended to allow POPs and Land Degradation as focal areas. • Representatives of the GEF …

… person or group of people, in possession or control of land, water, or other resources, has the duty to maintain the … Legal obligations to restore ecological conditions of land, water, or other resources are binding on all owners, … informed consent to any activities on or affecting their land or resources being a key objective. Principle 12 …

… beginning of the century. Trees are felled for timber, and land cleared for agriculture (Asibey, 1978). Access roads … and those below 2700 m in, or near, potential agricultural land are the most threatened. The forest on the Mau … pressure. Trees are felled for their timber, and the land cleared for agriculture and cocoa (Asibey, 1978). Roads …

… that the distribution covered 29-30X of the continental land area of the country. Bolivia Although no published … and conversion of forest and scrub to agricultural land (Salas, 1985; Gruss and Waller, 1986); local utilisation … (Honegger, 1979). REFERENCES Auffenberg, W. (1969). Land of the Chaco Tortoise Geochelone chllensls. …

… local and regional climate patterns. When water returns to land through precipitation, it may either remain on the … percolate downward to become groundwater. The area on the land surface where infiltration occurs is called the recharge … on their health and environment. Substances deposited on land surfaces (for example, fertilizers, pesticides and other …