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This report presents the findings of the second stage of Compensation for EnvironmentalServices Project (CES)1, carried out in Brazil from May to September of 2001. The principalobjective of the project was to assess to what extent and under what conditions ruralcommunities could benefit from environmental services provided by their territories.
In the Fall of 2001, The Nature Conservancy (the Conservancy), the United States Government (USG), and the Government of Belize (GOB) agreed to enter into a debt-for-nature swap project to preserve approximately 23,000 acres of rainforest in Belize and provide for its management well into the future.The project, the first of its kind under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA or the Act), provides for the reduction of debts with a total face value of $9.7 million1 owed by Belize, in exchange for payments to local conservation organizations. By contributing over $1 million dollars2 to...
Biodiversity is a good example of a resource that is managed locally, but is also subject to much wider claims as a public good – often a public good valued for the diffuse actual or potential value to all humanity around the world. As public concerns about biodiversity management grow, so there is increasing demand for communication between local and global approaches to valuing, and hence managing, biodiversity.Intrinsic to managing a resource is tracking what’s there: evaluating, or assessing, the resource. In the case of biodiversity though, there are no obvious means of assessing all...
The third objective of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which has now been ratified by 180 Parties, requires the benefits derived from the commercial and scientific use of genetic resources to be shared fairly and equitably with countries that provide the resources (often biologically rich countries in the South). Parties are required to introduce national policy or legislation on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing (Article 15(7)), and to encourage equitable benefit-sharing from the use of related knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local...
Este folleto resume las vivencias y experiencias de mujeres campesinas que creyendo y dando lo mejor de ellas han logrado unirse para construir una propuesta y un modelo de desarrollo socia, económico y equitativo, cuya base están en sus lazos de cooperación y solidaridad.
Este número está dedicado a uno de los ecosistemas más diversos y extraordinarios de nuestro país, el páramo.Se contó con la colaboración del Proyecto Páramo, que se dedica a la investigación y conservación de los páramos de nuestro país.
El Ecoturismo es una de esas actividades complementarias a la agricultura, con un gran potencial en Nicaragua, debido al auge del turismo en general y a una demanda de un turismo mas auténtico, mas responsable, mas respetuoso de la naturaleza y de las diferencias culturales.En Nicaragua, los cuatro elementos de la naturaleza están representados en todo su esplendor, razón por la cual esta guía nombra las rutas del ecoturismo en honor a estos cuatro elementos: Agua, Aire, Fuego y Tierra.
El presente documento está basada en la experiencia de Met@LoGo en Perú y detalla el proceso de reforma en la gestión de las municipalidades, a lo largo de sus etapas de acuerdo con la metodología aplicada en los cuatro países involucrados en Met@LoGo: Chile, Colombia, Honduras y Perú. Así mismo, en este doccumento, se resaltan los logros, dificultades y perspectivas de este proyecto. Además, mostrará un modelo de experiencia que pueda ser replicable en caso de que una municipalidad quiera iniciar una reforma de esa naturaleza.
Natural Resource Perspectives 102, november 2006Low external input technology (LEIT) is a prominent feature of many discussions about the role of agricultural technology in rural poverty reduction. There is a widespread conviction the LEIT is more accessible to resource-poor households and can be the basis for human and social capital formation. This paper summarises a recent review of the subject, presents findings on the outcomes of LEIT, and draws more general implications for donor strategies in agricultural technology generation.
There is general scientific agreement that gene flow from GM crops to sexually compatible wild relatives can occur. Experimental studies have shown that GM crops are capable of spontaneously mating with wild relatives, however at rates in the order of what would be expected for non-transgenic crops. Few studies have shown that GM herbicide tolerant (GMHT) oilseed rape (Brassica napus) can form F1 hybrids with wild turnip (Brassica rapa) at low frequency under natural conditions. Questions remain whether these transgenes would cause ecologically relevant changes in recipient plant...