Agriculture

Implementing the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture in Nepal: achievements and challenges

This book documents the results of the research and capacity development efforts to implement the ITPGRFA in Nepal. Its chapters cover five main interrelated themes: national-level multi-lateral system policy development; policy actors and networks; germplasm flows and interdependence; farmers’ involvement; and technology transfer.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2016
Bal Krishna Joshi, Pashupati Chaudhary, Deepak Upadhya, Ronnie Vernooy
Bioversity International
Tags:
Food Crops, Genetic Resources, Nepal, Climate Change, Farmers, Technology Transfer, Benefit Sharing, Agriculture, Food Security, Biodiversity
Wildlife

Market-based incentives and private ownership of wildlife to remedy shortfalls in government funding for conservation

In some parts of the world, proprietorship, price incentives, and devolved responsibility for management, accompanied by effective regulation, have increased wildlife and protected habitats, particularly for iconic and valuable species. Elsewhere, market incentives are constrained by policies and laws, and in some places virtually prohibited. In Australia and New Zealand, micro economic reform has enhanced innovation and improved outcomes in many areas of the economy, but economic liberalism and competition are rarely applied to the management of wildlife.

Publication Date: 
13/10/2016
George R. Wilson, Matt W. Hayward, Charlie Wilson
Conservation Letters
1-8
Tags:
Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Protected Area Conservation, Benefit Sharing, Public Participation, Endangered Species, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Tourism
Wildlife

Draft Wildlife Action Plan

This analysis of the draft wildlife action plan says that it takes note of the injustices historically carried out upon the local communities and addresses such injustice to be able to create local support for conservation. It also examines the extent to which the draft has explored complementarities between national laws and international obligations.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2016
Neema Pathak Broome
Economic and Political Weekly
51
40
5
Tags:
Wildlife, Wildlife And People, Benefit Sharing, Forest Policy, Forest Rights Act 2006, Minor Forest Produce, Protected Area Conservation, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), People - Animal Conflicts
Water Resources

Angry clashes in Karnataka as India's water wars run deep

Bengaluru erupts in violence over water-sharing plans with neighbouring state Tamil Nadu, as country-wide shortages reach crisis levels

Publication Date: 
15/09/2016
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Disputes, India, Karnataka, Cauvery, Tamil Nadu, Interstate Disputes, Rivers, Benefit Sharing, Supreme Court
Agriculture

Agrobiodiversity in the Sikkim Himalaya: sociocultural significance, status, practices, and challenges

This publication seeks to document the findings of a study on the general characteristics of agrodiversity, its significance, status, rate of change, and causal factors; the ecological, social, and policy dimensions of agrodiversity and their impact on the loss of agrobiodiversity; and existing strategies for the management of agroecosystems in

Publication Date: 
01/09/2016
Ghanashyam Sharma, Uma Partap, Eklabya Sharma, Golam Rasul, R K Awasthe
ICIMOD
Tags:
Agriculture, Biodiversity, Sikkim, Crop Biodiversity, Livestock, Agroecosystem Planning, Climate Change, Benefit Sharing, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge
Biodiversity

Approaches used to evaluate the social impacts of protected areas

Protected areas are a key strategy in conserving biodiversity, and there is a pressing need to evaluate their social impacts. Though the social impacts of development interventions are widely assessed, the conservation literature is limited and methodological guidance is lacking. Using a systematic literature search, which found 95 relevant studies, we assessed the methods used to evaluate the social impacts of protected areas.

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Publication Date: 
01/09/2016
Emiel de Lange, Emily Woodhouse, E.J. Milner-Gulland
Conservation Letters
9
5
327-333
Tags:
Protected Area Conservation, Biodiversity Conservation, Benefit Sharing, NGOs
Energy

Benefit sharing and sustainable hydropower: lessons from Nepal

Mountains offer ideal conditions for the development of hydropower, but the uneven distribution of benefits from project development often create friction and development disputes between communities and project developers.

Publication Date: 
28/06/2016
Padmendra Shrestha, Austin Lord, Aditi Mukherji & et al
ICIMOD
Tags:
Hydroelectricity, Benefit Sharing, Nepal, Electricity, Environment, Ecosystem Services, Rural Electrification, Irrigation
Biodiversity

Facilitating BioTrade in a challenging access and benefit sharing environment

The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing is a new multilateral environmental agreement under the CBD, seeking to clarify definitions, issues of scope and coverage of ABS, and specific actions by user and provider countries of biodiversity resources.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2016
UNCTAD
Tags:
Benefit Sharing, Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), Biodiversity, Genetic Resources, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Traditional Knowledge, India, Global, Environment
Biodiversity

State of the world's plants 2016

The spread of pests and pathogens that damage plant life could cost global agriculture $540 billion a year, according to this report released by the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. An increase in international trade and travel had left flora facing rising threats from invasive pests and pathogens, and called for greater biosecurity measures.

Publication Date: 
10/05/2016
Royal Botanic Gardens
Tags:
Biodiversity, Flora, Endangered Species, Climate Change, Invasive Alien Species, Genetic Resources, Benefit Sharing, Extinct Species, Minor Forest Produce, Patents, Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Crop Biodiversity, Plant Biodiversity
Biodiversity

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal environmental damage to Keoti Village forests by the construction Bio Diversity Parks, Rewa District, Madhya Pradesh, 04/06/2016

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Bio Diversity Management Committee, Rewa, Madhay Pradesh Vs Ministry of Environment & Forests & Others dated 04/06/2016 on the issue of environmental damage in Keoti Village forests by constructing Bio Diversity Parks by the government of Madhya Pradesh. It was also alleged that illegal mining was going on in the area and illegal construction was also being carried out in the name of development of tourism by using heavy machines and blastings.

Judgement Date: 
04/05/2016
Tags:
Biodiversity Hotspots, Rewa (D), Madhya Pradesh, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Traditional Knowledge, Benefit Sharing, Biodiversity Conservation, Endangered Species, Gram Panchayat

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