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National Blue Carbon Policy Assessment Madagascar
… INDC Intended Nationally Determined Contribution LULUCF Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry MAP Madagascar Action Plan MECIE … the new code with clear descriptions of the limitations to access and use (Art 11-23). The Integral Natural Reserve, …
Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment
… healthy and sustainable environment. 1. See Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision- Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, art. 1; African … conducted with due respect for the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the peoples or communities …
Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Equity in ABS Governance
… (HIVOS) to the project: “Gender Equity and Equality in the Access and Benefit Sharing of Biodiversity Resources”. … These include, among others, differences in relation to land and resource rights, possibilities for advancement at … 10 percent of women farmers in developing countries own land.4 Box 2. The Key Role of Women in Agriculture Women …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… 64 7.3 Transparency and Access to Information … when numerous upstream landholders dedicate their land to intensive agricultural or cattle-ranching activities, or when forest owners convert their forest land to agricultural land. In these cases, down- stream water …
FAO's work on Climate Change
… Climate change will bring further extreme weather events, land degradation and desertification, water scarcity, rising … addressing climate change, the health of the oceans, land degradation, social inclusion, education, and gender … number of existing tools and approaches that facilitate access and assist with the selection of those tools that meet …
Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual
… in specific productive sectors, as well as improving their access to basic services including water and sanitation, … In Vietnam, for example, the customary community head or land guardian controls rights to access and use of resources … that govern the use of forests, wildlife, water, pasture land, and other natural resources. Discuss participants’ …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… 59 8. Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in … advice provided by Jacob J. Burke, Senior Officer in the Land and Water Development Division of FAO, on points of … purposes of this Convention: (a) "desertification" means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub- humid areas …
UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide
… persons 85 2.2 Application 85 2.2.1 Scope scenario – Which land based water use activities are covered by the … Commentary 228 32.1.1 Non-discrimination and Equality of Access to National Remedies 228 32.1.2 Availability of … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land- based Activities Hydrology for the Environment, Life …
Transboundary Conservation. A systematic and integrated approach
… and landscape protection, protection of the agricultural land and fisheries; (2) professional work in nature … from their neighbours by thousands of kilometres of land and maritime boundaries. Approximately one-third of all … is designed to give those from different sectors easy access to the guidance, recommendations and best practice …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… traditional peoples to the use of certain resources and land, to knowledge, technology, power, decision making, … reproductive work, frequently insecure property rights and access to resources as well as of their reduced mobility. In … and which secure their entitlements to self determination, land, natural resources, information, education, health …