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What is Agrodiversity

… used by culturally diverse peoples, and therefore land and water resources are used for production in different … (see Table 1). However, in some areas, pressure on the land is so great that wild food supplies have been exhausted. … agricultural areas in forests, savannah and other bush land areas. Wild-foods are incorporated into the normal …
26 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Prevention, management and resolution of social conflict as a key requirement for conservation and management of ecosystems

… between political competition for control over resources, land and territories, and consequent political and military … around natural resource conservation, use, depletion and degradation; d. engage with the Conservation Initiative on …
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Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation

… relevance to this region, spanning 13,000 km of the land behind the former Iron Curtain, from the Barents Sea in … Areas Sandwith et al. (2001) define a TBPA as “an area of land and/or sea that straddles one or more borders between … of Prespa Park, prevent or reverse the causes of habitat degradation, explore appropriate management methods for the …
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Auditing the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): A Primer for Auditors

… seeks to bring together agriculture, forestry, fishery, land use and nature conservation in new ways. The UN … base with effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. The issues addressed included: • Systematic … of national parks and protected areas (both on land and in coastal waters), regulate exploitation …
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Promoting regional approaches to tackle the global problem of marine debris (litter)

… to prevent, reduce and manage debris, including from land- based sources, at local and regional levels; and b. … to find ways to prevent, reduce and manage debris from land-based and marine-based sources, including those …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… in terms of management issues, implying that current degradation and pollution, as well as the pressure on natural … incorrect use of flora will have a negative influence on land resources, causing erosion. This whole process will … Argentina, page 95. 10 11 This specifically includes all land and smaller rivers that supply the main river with …
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D1 - Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services

… V/6 of 2000 Principle 1: The objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal … Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Paris Convention), the 1979 Convention on … services such as regulation of floods, drought, land degradation, and disease; supporting services such as soil …
26 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor

… 5.4 Protecting wildlife from harmful processes and land uses 5.5 Wildlife health 5.6 Human-wildlife conflicts 55 … (ownership and use rights and obligations, links with land and forest tenure), public participation in wildlife … that distort markets which contribute to habitat degradation or otherwise generate perverse incentives that …
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Review of laws, policies and economic instruments related to payment for ecosystem services in Vietnam

… 2. Rights to use, manage and benefit from land and environmental resources .................1 Ecosystem … Rights to manage land and use … or more sellers who undertake to carry out a particular land use on a continuous basis, which will generate the … from the production of ecosystem services — even though land and resource conservation for ecosystem services incurs …
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Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation

… 3 Box 1.1 Definitions Protected Area An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and … 1994a). Transboundary Protected Area (TBPA) An area of land and/or sea that straddles one or more boundaries between … which can be 39 caused or aggravated by environmental degradation or unsustainable patterns of land and water use. …
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