Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/8
Session: Sess.16

This study analyses and compares national legislation on wildlife management in twelve countries in Asia and Oceania, with the aim of identifying strengths and weaknesses of legal frameworks in the promotion of sustainable wildlife management and in allowing disadvantaged people, particularly indigenous and local communities, to directly benefit from it.

A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.

Meeting symbol/code: COFI/2007/Inf.11

The last decade has witnessed a steep increase in interest and activities concerning NWFPs. The current interest in NWFPs amongst conservationists, foresters, development workers and indigenous peoples' groups has prompted numerous initiatives aimed at promoting NWFP use and commercialization as a means of improving the well-being of rural populations and, at the same time, conserving existing forests.

An international journal of forestry and forest industries

In the first part of this paper the role of the core principles in three different scenarios will be discussed. The first is a setting where a shared watercourse, but no specific treaty exists; the second, where a treaty is in the process of being negotiated; and the third where an agreement over the shared resource is in force. The second par t of the paper will look in detail at the normative content of each principle, its reflection in specific watercourse agreements and its implementation by joint bodies.

Tous les deux ans, le rapport intitul Situation des forts du monde fait le point sur l'tat des forts du monde et dcrit l'volution rcente des politiques et des institutions, ainsi que les questions cls qui se posent dans le secteur forestier. Il s'agit de la quatrime dition de cette publication dont l'objectif est de diffuser largement des informations concernant la politique, fiables et jour, auprs des dcideurs, des forestiers et d'autres gestionnaires des ressources naturelles, des universitaires, de l'industrie forestire et de la socit civile.

Investment is a critical engine for FAO to multiply its impact and achieve scale. The work of FAO’s Investment Centre contributes to increasing agricultural production and productivity, reducing poverty, hunger and malnutrition, managing natural resources sustainably and building the resilience of rural communities to withstand disasters and shocks − results that cut across FAO’s strategic objectives and further FAO’s mission to ensure people have access to enough safe and nutritious food to lead healthy, active lives.

Over the past two decades, political developments as well as macro-economic and extra-sectoral policies have affected the forests of Asia and the Pacific to an unprecedented extent, resulting in deforestation and forest degradation. Responding to the diminishing capacity of the region's natural forests to produce timber, many countries have turned to forest plantations. Governments and their respective forest agencies are asking what it takes to encourage non-government entities to grow trees.