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Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… and practitioners (http://www.farmersrights.org/state/index.html) 2 R. Andersen, 2016. Farmers’ Rights: … It has since been used as a source of resistance to a range of diseases. • The primitive Japanese dwarf wheat … substantial work carried out at different levels by a wide range of experts, including agronomists, anthropologists, …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Interactions between aquaculture and the environment

… activity that includes very diverse practices and a wide range of production species, systems and techniques. Its … moved by human activities to an area outside their natural range, and might threaten human health, economic or … aquatic wild stocks and their ecosystems are in a fragile state. The growing importance of aquaculture production …
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Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters

… framing of transboundary water governance as a state-to-state matter underplays the importance of … women as resource users, managers and innovators across a range of water-related productive sectors, including in … governance as a state-to state matter also misses the range of scales and nature of the challenges faced: …
25 May 2026 Literature

IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources

… occurring materials which form the basis for a wide range of products, such as aromas, gums, resins, or snake … ABS regime, may it be the regime of a particular State for accessing MGR within its jurisdiction, or a … Part of the reason for this low culturability is the wide range of environmental conditions, such as light, …
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Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management

… or through soil sealing). Molden and Oweis (2007) state that as much as 90 percent of the rainfall in arid … and irrigation, higher productivity of non-arable lands (range and woodlands), benefits skewed toward poorer members … governance in drylands Water governance relates to the range of political, social, economic and environmental …
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Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP

… of those amended or written since 1970, include a state obligation to protect the environment or a right to a … system, including its specialized agencies. The wide range of environmental and human rights agreements need to be … ecological damage and other vector-borne diseases across a range of developing countries.23 The burden of these diseases …
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Towards Networks of Marine Protected Areas: The MPA Plan of Action for IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas

… often in the form of best practice advice, to a diverse range of players; • Developing enhanced capacity at different … to maximum sustainable yields by 2015, where possible. A range of regional and local commitments also contributes to … eradicate that diversity. Given the increasingly degraded state of the marine environment, high levels of protection …
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UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015

… and circulates globally due to its persistence and long-range mobility, global measures are required. Under the MOYAI … judging against a few basic criteria, it looks at a whole range of factors – from whether the chemical is toxic to … of prey. In 2012, UNEP and WHO published a report entitled State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals – 2012 …
25 May 2026 Document

Sources of international law (Part I) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… concern has grown steadily over the years. Some inter-state efforts to address problems relating to the oceans, … agreement” in its generic sense embraces the widest range of international instruments. In the practice of … less formal than a “treaty” and deals with a narrower range of subject matter. There is a general tendency to apply …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level

… and climate governance under the UNFCCC. Distilling a wide range of information and insights on REDD and forest carbon … due to its significant forest carbon emissions) show a range of the deforestation and forest degradation drivers … uncertainty may arise from conflicting federal and state government decrees and can add yet another element of …
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