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Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems and Biocultural Heritage: Addressing Indigenous Priorities Using Decolonial and Interdisciplinary Research Approaches
… and territories of Indigenous Peoples sustain much of the world’s biodiversity, cultivated and wild, through agroecological practices … and conservation policies. They called for research on the rapid loss of Indigenous knowledge; Indigenous Peoples’ land rights and food … led by Indigenous Peoples, is urgently needed to reverse the rapid loss of food-related biocultural heritage. Find out more on the project …
Publication, 30 September 2022
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Biodiversity Conservation and the Eradication of Poverty
… It is widely accepted that biodiversity loss and poverty are linked problems and that conservation and poverty … to be combined. We review the links between poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation and present a conceptual typology of these … Biodiversity … Biodiversity Conservation and the Eradication of Poverty …
Publication, 01 November 2004
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Redesigning debt: lessons from HIPC for COVID, climate and nature
… to deprioritising investment in addressing climate change and nature loss. Calls for additional debt relief are getting louder. To meet the multiple challenges of debt, climate change and biodiversity loss, a new model is needed. Focusing on lessons from the Heavily …
Publication, 06 July 2021
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Biodiversity for the Millennium Development Goals: What local organisations can do
… Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a target to significantly reduce biodiversity loss by 2010 ‘as a contribution to poverty alleviation’. In 2005, the … (MA)offered compelling evidence of the positive links between biodiversity conservation and human well-being. In practice, however, … Biodiversity … Biodiversity for the Millennium Development Goals: What local …
Publication, 01 March 2007
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Poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation: rebuilding the bridges
… Has biodiversity ‘all but disappeared from the global dialogue on … of most international development agencies, question the absence of biodiversity conservation from this agenda, and debate the role of the … the two. Sanderson & Redford are not wholly correct in lamenting the loss of biodiversity from the sustainable development agenda. Indeed, …
Publication, 01 April 2004
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National Workshop on Biodiversity and Enviromental Governance : Safeguarding ecosystems for human well-being
… Its aims were to take stock of the implementation of environment and biodiversity policies; identify key lessons and challenges; and promote … action. India has a number of policies and laws on environment and biodiversity, but there is a significant gap in their implementation. … pollution, water scarcity, declining forest cover, biodiversity loss etc. A new culture is emerging which places high emphasis on …
Publication, 01 December 2006
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Food production, agricultural expansion and deforestation in Mai-Ndombe, DRC
… tropical forest in the world, which is known for its exceptional mega-biodiversity and essential role in maintaining global climate cycles. … full Working Paper examines the relationship between deforestation, biodiversity loss, and food production in the Mai-Ndombe province in the DRC, and the … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 July 2019
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Linking sovereign debt to climate and nature outcomes. A guide for debt managers and environmental decision makers
… grapple with the triple crisis of debt, climate change and nature loss, compounded by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple … climate and nature investment in the most climate-vulnerable and biodiversity-rich countries. …
Publication, 05 November 2021
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Safeguarding Lepcha and Limbu cultural values and worldviews for conservation and sustainable development in the Eastern Himalayas, India
… effectively combine food production with sustainable development, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem protection. Although Indigenous … role of different elements of cultural heritage, and their links with biodiversity, in promoting sustainable development. This study was … Finally, to enhance conservation and livelihoods and to stem the loss of traditional ecological knowledge, restrictions on forest access …
Publication, 06 August 2021
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PLA65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent
… – including some 370 million indigenous peoples – directly depend on biodiversity and related traditional knowledge for their livelihoods, food security, healthcare and well-being. But with the loss of biodiversity, valuable resources such as climate-resilient crops, … PLA65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and …
Publication, 01 June 2012