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The Futures of Privately Protected Areas
… impacting conservation objectives that are not under their control and ensure these do not reduce the area’s … Landowner motivations often include issues relating to quality of life. Corporations set up PPAs as part of … These can include provisioning services such as food and water; regulating services such as regulation of …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… Diversity CMPA Collaboratively Managed Protected Area FAO Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations FPIC … through land management practices such as noxious weed control and protecting native grasses whilst promoting … were selected based on a number of guiding criteria: • quality of primary and secondary material available; • …
D2 - Dams, Ecosystems and Fisheries
… on-stream dams impact flow volume, flow velocity, water quality, water temperatures and fisheries. Participants will … watersheds, freshwater fisheries serve as an important food source for local populations and/or support local … appropriate and effective measures to prevent, reduce and control significant adverse transboundary environmental …
Convention text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury
… effects, sources, long-range transport, and prevention and control technologies relating to mercury. In 2003, the … restoration; (iv) Promoting research and development of quality mercury-free materials for dental restoration; (v) … insurance policies and programmes that favour the use of quality alternatives to dental amalgam for dental …
African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas
… Guinea-Bissau: Mangrove conservation, climate change and food security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … long-term supply of seedlings. 2. engaging citizens to control the spread of invasive species Invasive species are … ha of forest within the 6 villages in 2014 to improve soil quality. Moreover, up to 180 ha of land are being restored …
Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation
… Green Belt EUR Euro, official currency of the eurozone FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations GEF … of agricultural commodity chains, based on high quality and value added products of the region. Developing … and being subjected to numerous police and border guard control points, amounting to a full day trip in each …
Transboundary Conservation. A systematic and integrated approach
… nature- based solutions to global challenges in climate, food and development. IUCN supports scientific research, … Refers to areas under governmental, communal, or private control, used for a variety of purposes (e.g. agriculture, … the 2014 World Parks Congress. This describes governance quality, including the principles of good governance, and …
Glossary of terms for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements
… Shorthand for the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments. … Protocol. CGRFA Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Permanent forum established in 1983 … to witness sites or regions of unique natural or ecologic quality, or the provision of services to facilitate such …
A review of the matrix-based management approach and organization of the Secretariats of the Basel Convention and the Stockholm Convention and the UNEP-part of the Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention
… Programme (UNEP) and the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United … (UNEP), in consultation with the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), was asked to explore … this question and the associated metric do not cover the quality of the relevant outputs, which is an element of …