Les espèces migratrices sont très variées, depuis les insectes et les oiseaux jusqu’aux bisons et aux éléphants, depuis les requins et les dauphins jusqu’aux serpents. Qu’elles parcourent des milliers de kilomètres ou quelques kilomètres seulement, ces espèces jouent un rôle essentiel dans les…
Las especies migratorias existen en todos los tamaños y formas, desde los de minúsculos insectos y pequeñas aves hasta grandes búfalos y elefantes, pasando por tiburones y delfines o serpientes. Tanto si el viaje que realizan es de miles de kilómetros como de unos pocos, las especies migratorias…
The guide focuses on equity and on how land tenure can be governed in ways that address the different needs and priorities of women and men. It moves away from long-standing debates about gender equality in access to land, towards the mainstreaming of gender issues to achieve more gender-…
Across the developing world, rural women suffer widespread gender-based discrimination in laws, customs and practices cause severe inequalities in their ability to access, control, own and use land and limit their participation in decision-making at all levels of land governance. This synthesis…
This guide offers a three-point framework for companies seeking to integrate FPIC principles into their policies and apply them in the operations. This includes
• complying with the requirements for FPIC under international and national law,
• implementing FPIC principles…
Ecological footprint analysis (EFA) can be used by cities to account for their on-going demands on global renewable resources. To date, EFA has not been fully implemented as an urban policy and planning tool in part due to limitations of local data availability. In this paper we focus on the…
Why are the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests important?
After having been the source of livelihood of most of the earth’s population for thousands of years, land and other natural resources have become objects of speculation,…
Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. The vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations…
