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Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought

… a global threat to biodiversity and sustainable development .......1 Extent of Land Degradation Worldwide … among the most important to enable vulnerable and at-risk rural communities adapt to climate change. Sustainable Land … and CTA - Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation. SER, 2004. SER International Primer on …
19 Jun 2026 Literature

Negotiate: reaching agreement over water

… pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges. IUCN works on biodiversity, climate … from governments, agencies, industry, farmers and other rural producers, consumers, environmental and other NGOs … question: How can we reduce hun- ger and poverty, improve rural livelihoods, and facilitate equitable, environmentally, …
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Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners

… RESOURCES AND GUARDIANS OF BIODIVERSITY AND THEIR RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT AS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS BASED PRINCIPLE FOREWORD … understood and verified; • Accessible to the most remote, rural communities, including youth, women, the elderly and … Customary land tenure refers to the systems that many rural communities use to express and regulate ownership, …
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Aspectos jurídicos de la conservación de los glaciares

… 1992. 8 Draft International Covenant on Environmental and Development, Third Edition, updated text, Environmen- tal … ya que en muchas áreas buena parte de la población rural depende de la leña para cocinar sus alimentos. A menor … política de planeamiento y gestión del ambiente urbano y rural, inte- grada a las políticas de desarrollo económico, …
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Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India

… visible, so as to support their mainstreaming in economic development. A scoping report on the state of art of … Fuelwood is the dominant source of cooking energy for rural population According to FSI (2013), about 216 million … forests (162 t/ha). Fuelwood: Fuelwood is the main-stay of rural population of India for cooking, along with other …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015

… UNCT United Nations Country Team UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNEA United Nations Environment … the situation of women and girls everywhere, including in rural areas and local communities and among indigenous people … Action (Beijing +10) called upon Member States to enhance rural women’s income-generating potential, noting the …
19 Jun 2026 Document

Sharing Information with Confidence. “The Biodiversity Commons”: past experience, current trends and potential future directions

… for general use in advancing the aims of conservation and development. The report is divided into nine sections, … in the north and south, as well as in urban centres and rural outposts… Necessary investments include the purchase of … carried out by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) highlighted the main gaps in …
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Change : Adaptation of water resources management to climate change

… on Water and Climate, and the Canadian International Development Agency. Published by: IUCN, Gland, Switzerland … relief has focused on maintaining the income levels of the rural unemployed population through public construction … their access to and control of natural resources. Most rural communities in the Mekong have diverse livelihood …
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Cost and benefits of ecosystem based adaptation: The case of the Philippines

… IUCN, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du … or displaced (IFRC 2012, 2013). 10 "South East Asian rural livelihoods are faced with mounting pressures as sea- … to sea-level rise and storms. The displacement of impacted rural and coastal communities, resulting from the loss of …
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Putting nature on the map: a report and recommendations on the use of the IUCN system of protected area categorisation in the UK

… on nature conservation for use in a wide range of development and conservation work undertaken by national and … Designated Areas DEFRA Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs DOENI Department of Environment Northern … under time-limited EU-funded agri- environmental and rural development schemes; measures to protect the built …
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