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… Initiative is an action programme to demonstrate that ecosystem-based management and stakeholder participation will … large area of land that drains into a major river, while ‘sub-catch- ments’ or ‘micro-catchments’ are much smaller … jeopardised as a result. • Planting exotic trees in sub-humid parts of South Africa is no longer considered a merely …

… the manner in which these are supported by the work of sub- sidiary bodies and treaty secretariats, and the role of … ment of cetaceans or other marine living resources or the ecosystem’); IWC Doc. SC/66b/Rep06, IWC Archive no. 5824, 48, … and trends of the biological diversity of dry and sub-humid lands on the basis of the outputs of the activities of …

… of fauna. Earlier agreements also dealt with a particular ecosystem, such as oceans. Conceivably this latter matter is … Some SAIs have the mandate to audit national and sub- national legislation relating to MEAs. For example, the … Degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas,  …

… Evidence shows that certain arid, semi-arid, and dry sub humid areas have experienced decreas- ing precipitation, … Interactions between sea turtles and fisheries within an ecosystem context. Rome, 9-12 March 2004. FAO Fisheries …

… However, unsustainable use, disasters, pollution, loss of ecosystem services and the health implications of … practices.121 The degradation of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas can lead to desertification, resulting primarily …

… 3.1.1 Ecosystem Management … 41 4.3.6 Relationship between National and Sub-national Laws and Institutions ........................ … approved at international, re- gional, national or sub-national level and should operate fairly and consistently … marine and coastal areas,5 biodiversity of dry and sub-humid lands, and forest biological diversity. In 1998, it re- …

… codes that apply to multinational enterprises. The UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights approved Norms on the … order environmental harm to be cleaned up or the damaged ecosystem returned to a healthy state. Such orders, which are … as land degradation in arid, semi- arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including …

… LU: ......... Livestock Unit MA: ........ Millennium Ecosystem Assessment MDG: ..... Millennium Development Goal … to be left behind, and must particularly address sub-national development disparities as well as issues of … crop- livestock systems typically found in temperate, sub- humid, humid or highland climates31. To some extent past …

… Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment and the UN convention on climate change … areas (http://www.ifad.org/pub/ar.htm), particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia where they often depend … CBD and the UNCCD on Biological Diversity of Dry and Sub-Humid Lands; the Joint Work Plan between Ramsar and the …

… are effectively agreeing that for access to a defined sub-cat- egory of PGRFA, as between Contracting Par- ties, … (species diversity) and the interrelationships of life (ecosystem diver- sity). In other words, the CBD is the … and rice for Latin America and on resource management in humid agro-ecosystems in tropical America including …