Water Resources

Drainage basin security: prospects for trade-offs and benefit sharing in a globalised world

The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes in water and development. Future-oriented, interdisciplinary and

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Stockholm International Water Institute
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Management, Water Policy, Drainage, Climate Change, Benefit Sharing, Governance, Rainfall
Climate Change

Intellectual Property Rights: Excluding other rights of other people

This article interrogates the claims of intellectual property to be a right. Drawing on the political theory of rights, it argues that information, ideas and knowledge fail to meet the basic test of rights and intellectual property right prevents those who do not own it from accessing and exercising their own diverse rights.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Rajshree Chandra
Economic and Political Weekly
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31
86
Tags:
Agriculture, Health, Farmers, Traditional Knowledge, Drugs, Drug Industry, Food Safety, Benefit Sharing, GMOs, Science And Technology, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Information
Environment

Rights-based approaches: exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

The links between human rights and biodiversity and natural resource conservation are many and complex. The conservation community is being challenged to take stronger measures to respect human rights and is taking opportunities to further their realisation.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2009
& et al, Thomas Greiber, Jessica Campese, Terry Sunderland
Center for International Forestry Research
Tags:
Environment, Deforestation, Community Forest Management (CFM), Climate Change, Tribals, Protected Area Conservation, Biodiversity, Benefit Sharing, Human Rights, Governance, South Africa, Indonesia, Jordan, Nepal, Australia, Colombia, Water Management
Environment

 Greenbucks

Being environment friendly is turning out to be good economics, but where is the regulator? THE Greendex survey by National Geographic comes as no surprise. The second of NatGeo

Publication Date: 
14/06/2009
Down to Earth
18
20090615
2
Tags:
Environment, Environment Economics, Benefit Sharing, India, Developing Countries, Consumption Patterns
Science And Technology

 Microbes can be patented

Mashelkar report says modified organisms are intellectual property THE expert group on patent law headed by R A Mashelkar has recommended that microbes like bacteria, fungi and virus should be patented if they have been modified. The committee has also said India cannot limit its patents to new chemical substances in pharmaceutical products. The recommendations were submitted to the Union

Publication Date: 
14/06/2009
Kirtiman Awasthi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Drug Industry, Biodiversity, Benefit Sharing, Micro Organisms, Science And Technology, Biotechnology, Patents, Patent Rules 2005, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), India
Agriculture

Poor farmers to guard Earth's crop riches

The Quechua of Peru are among the first recipients of a new global fund for becoming custodians of the world's threatened crops.

Publication Date: 
13/06/2009
Andy Coghlan
New Scientist
0
2712
12
Tags:
Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Seeds, Potato, Food Supply, Climate Change, Farmers, Benefit Sharing, Aid, International Cooperation, Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Peru, Food Security
Environment

Anegundi is first in rural tourism

The picturesque hamlet of Anegundi, perched on the banks of the Tungabhadra, has many claims to fame. Anegundi is a pioneer in the Endogenous Tourism Projects programme. Started 2004 in 36 destinations across India, the programme is being carried out by the United Nations Development Programme in partnership with the Union Ministry of Tourism.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2009
Susheela Nair
Civil Society
6
8
0
Tags:
Environment, Tourism, Benefit Sharing, Ministry of Tourism, UNDP, Karnataka, Ecotourism
Agriculture

International treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture

The objectives of this treaty are the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of their use, in harmony with the Convention on Biological Diversity, for sustainable agriculture and food security.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2009
FAO
Tags:
Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), Agriculture, Food Crops, Farmers, Benefit Sharing, Finance, International Cooperation, FAO, Food Security
Wildlife

The Asiatic Lion and the Maldharis of Gir forest: An assessment of Indian Eco-Development

This article is an analysis of the India Eco-Development Project (IEP) implemented in Sasan Gir National Park and Sanctuary. Statistical data describing the consumption patterns and financial status of the Maldharis was collected from 13 nesses.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2009
Kaavya Varma
Journal of Environment & Development
18
2
154
Tags:
Livestock, Forest Villages, Firewood, LPG, Pastoral Nomads, Tribals, Household Energy, Wildlife, Lion, Gir NP, Eco Development, Wildlife And People, Benefit Sharing, Gujarat
Fisheries

 Robbed of the sea

Marine protected areas have put thousands of fishers out of business. It doesn

Publication Date: 
14/05/2009
Nidhi Jamwal, Ashutosh Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Sundarban NP, Gulf Of Kachchh, Fisheries, Marine Fisherfolk, Compensation, Turtles, Protected Area Conservation, Gulf Of Mannar Marine NP, Gahirmatha Marine SA, Benefit Sharing, India, Kendrapara (D)

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