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The interface between access and benefit-sharing and biotrade in Namibia: exploring potential areas of synergy
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2017Legal uncertainty and administrative and regularity burdens are serious impediments to sustainable and responsible biodiversity-based economic activities.DocumentClimate impacts on agriculture and tourism: the case for climate resilient investment in the Caribbean
Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2017For the Caribbean, climate change is not tomorrow’s problem. The threats it poses are neither distant nor abstract – they are already apparent.DocumentMaking a killing: a 2011 survey of ivory markets in China
International Fund for Animal Welfare, 2016An unprecedented surge in ivory seizures occurred in 2011. Media reported that 5,259 elephant tusks were seized worldwide in that year alone, representing the lives of at least 2,629 elephants. In spite of the government’s efforts to regulate the ivory trade, China continues to be the world’s main recipient of smuggled ivory.DocumentLand, biodiversity and extractive industries in southern Africa: How effective are legal and institutional frameworks in protecting people and the environment?
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2016In the natural resources sector, laws are often formulated to regulate the relationship between men and the environment. Ideally, the law can play a vital role in regulating and protecting communities from adverse environmental and social impacts of mining, loss of land, biodiversity and natural wealth, as well as other human rights violations.DocumentSmallholders at risk: monoculture expansion, land, food and livelihoods in Latin America
Oxfam, 2014Greater investment in agriculture is needed to reduce rural poverty and improve food security; but how investment is made, its context and conditions, is at least as important as how much is invested.DocumentSpotlight on publications: extractive industries and land use
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012Questions about land use are inextricably related to decisions about where and how to engage in extractive industry activities.DocumentConsultation report on Equatorial Guinea’s key policy sectors: ariculture, fisheries, tourism, and finance
Korea Development Institute, 2013The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is an emerging West African country with its solid vision for growth, and, with the national strategic document of “Vision 2020” and under the administrative guidance of the National Agency 2020, implements widespread economic and social investment.DocumentNot so sweet, hazardous child labour, with a focus on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast
KidsRights Foundation, 2014Ivory Coast now accounts for 35% of the world’s cocoa production. Around 900,000 farmers grow the bean, and 3.5 million people depend on it for their livelihoods. The most recent data shows that an estimated 819,921 children worked in the 2008/2009 harvest season.DocumentThe effects of the European Union-imposed livestock identification and traceback system on Botswana’s beef exports and rural poverty
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011In 1997 the EU introduced a requirement that beef imports be traceable through a computerised system. To ensure continued access to the EU market, Botswana introduced the livestock identification and traceback system (LITS).DocumentPolicy considerations of adopting Geographical Indication protection in South Africa
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012Geographical Indication (GI) refers to a proper name or a sign that identifies a certain product with a specific geographical location (the product’s origin) such as a province, a town or a country. The definition also implies that the product has specific qualities such as shelf life, texture, flavour, scent or nutritional properties related to its geographical origin.Pages