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Transboundary River Basins: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)

… UNEP 2016). With some 80% of marine pollution coming from land-based sources, special attention should be paid to the …
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The economic lives of smallholder farmers - An analysis based on household data from nine countries

… 8 3 Labour, land and other capital … in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares.1 Many are poor and food … Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the …
25 May 2026 Literature

On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… DEADLY ENVIRONMENT: THE KILLING AND CRIMINALIZATION OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS WORLDWIDE ON DANGEROUS … environmental campaigner and activist on indigenous land rights. Last year she was awarded the Goldman … levels of land inequality, poverty and environmental degradation.68 The principal suspects in much of the …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

National Mechanisms for Reporting and Follow-up

… rights issues (detention, torture, displacement, access to land, etc.) on women, men, girls, boys and others. In doing …
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Putting nature on the map: a report and recommendations on the use of the IUCN system of protected area categorisation in the UK

… others on species or habitat protection; most owning land, but often leasing it too, or advising on land management. We have engaged with these and other … especially state bodies and NGOs who own a great deal of land, has increased the level of interest about this …
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Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work

… between water, energy and food (or the management of land for food, fodder, and fuel production) – the nexus – has … interventions that tackle competition for water or degradation of ecosystems as a consequence of different … of Sussex, UK. • Tira Foran, Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia. • Stephen Biggs, …
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Protecting human health and the environment: A guide to the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals and pesticides

… or her family or spur people to migrate from agricultural land to the slums of the developing world's cities. There …
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Technical guidelines on hazardous waste from the production and use of organic solvents (Y16)

… D9 Physico-Chemical Treatment D10 Incineration on Land 4 These options only serve to identify the most common …
25 May 2026 Document

The Role of legal instruments to support Green low-emission and climate-resilient development - A guidebook on assessing, selecting and implementing legal instruments

… carbon- resilient future? How does this particular land use law enable or hinder the imple- mentation of Green … farm forestry on at least 10 percent of all agricultural land, contain provisions on enforcement measures and … and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation schemes. …
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Establishing marine protected area networks

… local benefits. Networks can also help reduce the degradation of coastal and marine habitats, slow the loss of … analyses of the MPA net- work, set within the broader land and ocean area. o Include the potential for generating …
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