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African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas
… on marine turtles, and to assess climate change impacts on small-scale fishing, mangroves, birds and local communities. 4. … alternative livelihoods such as goat and snake farming. 3. land use plan for conservation and livelihoods …
Transitioning to a pollution-free planet
… environmental agreements Scientific evidence • Need to scale up implementation action (through, for example, … investors making large financial commitments, it seeks small financial commitments from a large number of people. An … landscapes. Efficient agriculture techniques, organic farming, and integrated landscape management can …
Legislating for property rights in fisheries
… to reduce fleet size, but such measures have had only a small impact on fishing effort. When fishermen only have … have become more widespread; and the plight of the small-scale fishermen has intensified. " The Report states the … (2) Any fish specifically provided for under a marine farming licence are not owned by the State but are the …
Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services
… and river sedimentation is reduced in cultivated areas by farming systems using zero-tillage or agroforestry compared … to downstream water quality, quantity and flow regime. Scale is a critical issue in linking watershed services and … Upstream managers may, however, operate only on very small areas of land and thus individually have almost no …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… meadows, flooded forests and oxbow lakes which may have small areas of permanent water during the dry season but … through fisheries, cattle herding and recession culture farming on the wet nutrient-rich riverbanks. The middle … of which may be relevant to wetland management on a wider scale.28 The supply of the products, functions and attributes …
Global biodiversity outlook 4 - A mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
… will succeed. Solutions for achieving sustainable farming and food systems include sustainable productivity … wetlands and forests, sometimes on a very ambitious scale, as in China. Many countries, organizations and … applied 3 Good progress but better targeting needed. Too small and still outweighed by perverse incentives Target …
Modern water rights : Theory and practice
… doctrine effectively prohibited irrigation on any large scale in the southern regions of the prairie provinces which … This reallocative effect would not be merely within the farming sector. There was also the prospect of reducing … with a strong social welfare role. With the exception of small farms, the farm sector consisted of ejidos, land in …
GEO yearbook 2003
… of Africa. Millions more were rendered homeless. The full scale of the disaster was still not clear as the year came to … marine environment. It also missed a number of goals for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on waste and pollution, … sources is therefore a crucially important part of their farming systems (Goote and Lefeber 2003). It allows them to …
Rule: Reforming water governance
… systems that will accommodate future generations. Large-scale industrial-age water projects like the Tennessee Valley … slopes for 300–450 years. The Chagga are a high intensity farming community, which developed a system of irrigation … to plant up to 5 percent of their holdings with trees, but small-scale farmers and wetland owners are exempt from these …
Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… they are also particularly important for traditional small-scale farmers in maintaining the quality and yield of their … exist outside these regions; • Many economically important farming systems are based on crop species in- troduced from …