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Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… and protecting them is designed to enable farmers and farming communities to continue performing their role as … the important role and contribution of family and small-scale farming in sustaining world food security, particularly …
Community - based incentives for nature conservation
… and participate in markets which are monopolised by a small number of middlemen, natural woodlands generate little … and supply sides. In Case Study 2 the activities of large-scale commercial timber concerns and urban consumers are also … households in the division depend on mixed smallholder farming, Kibwezi is an agriculturally marginal area. Only a …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… 7 2.3.1 Scale … direct payments for the application of sustainable farming practices which lead to the provision of ecosystem … that such private projects will mostly develop at a small scale with the objec- tive to solve a specific local … would need to facilitate a better connection of different small scale private PES schemes, and to find ways for scaling …
Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation
… to: an increase in land-related conflicts (both large and small); growing informal land markets and accompanying … rights of that community. Pastoralists, sedentary small-scale farmers and hunter-gatherer groups, for example, will … may cater for multiple resource uses (e.g. pastoralism, farming, fishing) and users (farmers, residents and …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… particular species and, in many cases, allows hunting of small animals such as rodents and lizards but not of other … PM Decree define customary use of water, but small scale use of water, as defined in the law, is most closely … they provide wood for construction, road and bridge work, farming tools, furniture, fuel and charcoal. They are also …
Guidelines on Biofuels and Invasive Species
… production, transport and processing stages of projects. Scale issues will greatly affect how the guidelines are used by different stakeholders. Small scale developments make implementing the guidelines and … for a fuel source would logically lead to more planting or farming of the species. For established populations, only …
Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty
… plant diversity has been the raw material that enabled farming systems and agriculture to evolve. Food plants have … varieties continues to be maintained on-farm by poor, small-scale farmers who rely on traditional crop varieties to meet …
Land and water - the rights interface
… the urban unemployed (Maxwell D. and Zziwa S. 1992. Urban Farming in Africa: the case of Kampala, Uganda ACTS Press, … irrigated agriculture which is particularly sensitive to small temperature variations. Agriculture is already the main … Over recent years concerns over the effects of large scale water abstractions on the environment have played an …
The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security
… Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 SIDS Small Island Developing States TAD Transboundary Animal … plagues have been known to destroy crops on a massive scale. This report takes into consideration food chain crises … caused mostly by the disruption of fishing and aquaculture farming activities due to damage to key assets such as boats, …
Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation
… transboundary conservation initiatives on a regional scale. Further chapters are dedicated to 12 case studies from … to intergovernmental organisations (IGO) and large- and small-scale non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Their … is limited to cattle and sheep breeding, and small-scale farming utilizing traditional land-use patterns. …