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- Meeting prep: Fourth Global Conference of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative
- This week in review … Adaptation Fund Board calls for comments on proposed environmental and social policy
- Resource: CBA7 proceedings
- This week in review … Jamaica to inventory its living heritage
- Resources: Human rights and agribusiness in Southeast Asia
- This week in review … Industrial model of producing both food and knowledge is faulty, researchers argue
- This week in review … Developing countries call for a legally binding instrument to come out of the WIPO negotiations
Meeting prep: Fourth Global Conference of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:23 PM PDT Fourth Global Conference of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative IPSI-4, entitled 'The Way Forward: Implementing the IPSI Strategy for the Benefit of Biodiversity and Human Well-being', will be held at Fukui, Japan on 12-14 September 2013. The Conference is composed of the IPSI Assembly (IPSI members only), Public Forum (open to all interested participants, and a Public Symposium that Fukui Prefectural Government is organizing to facilitate the full engagement of local citizens and stakeholders. The Public Forum will focus on challenges and opportunities for socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes from local perspectives. It is recalled that the Satoyama Initiative aims at conserving human-influenced natural environments that people have developed and maintained sustainably over a long time, as well as the sustainable practices and knowledge they represent. Read the Conference announcement … Visit the website of the Satoyama Initiative … |
This week in review … Adaptation Fund Board calls for comments on proposed environmental and social policy Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:21 PM PDT Call for public comments on the proposed Environmental and Social Policy WASHINGTON DC, USA: The Adaptation Fund Board has launched a public call for comments on its proposed Environmental and Social Policy for the Adaptation Fund. The policy aims to formalize the consideration and application of the safeguards in all climate adaptation activities financed by the Adaptation Fund. Among other issues, it is noted that projects supported by the Fund shall: provide fair and equitable access to benefits in a manner that is inclusive and does not impede access to basic services and land rights; and avoid imposing any disproportionate impact on marginalized and vulnerable groups, including indigenous people and tribal groups. It is stated that the Fund shall not support projects/programmes that are inconsistent with the rights and responsibilities set forth in UNDRIP and other applicable international instruments; or that would involve significant conversion or degradation of critical natural habitats, including those recognized as protected by traditional local communities. Projects shall be designed and implemented in a way that avoids the alteration, damage or removal of any physical cultural resources, cultural sites and sites with unique natural values recognized as such at the community, national or international levels; and avoids or minimizes the need for involuntary resettlement. The draft policy provides for a public disclosure and consultation process, as well as grievance mechanism. Comments should be sent to afbsec@adaptation-fund.org by 23 September 2013. Read the call … Download the proposed environmental and social policy [pdf] … |
Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:18 PM PDT Community-based adaptation: mainstreaming CBA into national and local planning The seventh international conference on community-based adaptation (CBA) was held from 18-25 April 2013, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. CBA recognizes that environmental knowledge, vulnerability and resilience to climate impacts are embedded in societies and cultures. This means the focus is on empowering communities to take action based on their own decision-making processes. The primary aim of CBA7 was to share and consolidate the latest developments in CBA planning and practices in different sectors and countries in South East Asia and globally, and disseminate this knowledge more broadly. Download the proceedings [pdf] … |
This week in review … Jamaica to inventory its living heritage Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:15 PM PDT Jamaica pushes on with the inventory of its living heritage KINGSTON, JAMAICA: Less than a year after hosting a foundational workshop on the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at the national level and the development of a plan of action to this effect, Jamaica is mobilizing community practitioners and representatives of its governmental and non-governmental organizations to push forward with the inventorying of its living heritage. Organized by the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank in collaboration with the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean, a national workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage is taking place in Kingston from 4 to 13 September 2013. The workshop focuses on community participation in the identification and inventorying of intangible cultural heritage, data collection, organization and management, and hands-on experience in preparing field work. Read the release … |
Resources: Human rights and agribusiness in Southeast Asia Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:09 PM PDT Montien Resolution on Human Rights and Agribusiness in Southeast Asia The Montien Resolution was adopted at a workshop held from 7-9 August 2013 in Bangkok, convened by the Thai Human Rights Commission with the support of the Forest Peoples Programme and the Rights and Resources Initiative. The workshop gathered participants from national human rights institutions from the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Timor-Leste and Myanmar, and supportive civil society organizations. The resolution calls on all Southeast Asian countries to establish their own independent Human Rights Commissions in line with international standards, highlighting that Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Laos PDR, Vietnam and Cambodia do not currently have their own Human Rights Commissions. It reiterates the need for States to develop effective regulatory frameworks which secure communities' rights to lands, territories and resources and which require agribusinesses to respect such rights in line with international human rights standards, including UNDRIP and the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. It demands full supply chain traceability in which environmental protections are matched with comprehensive protections of human rights for commodities such as palm oil, timber and soy; and emphasizes the urgent need to identify and encourage alternative production systems, based on secure rights, so that local communities, indigenous peoples and smallholders can have greater control of production based on diversified land use. Read the resolution … Agribusiness large-scale land acquisitions and human rights in Southeast Asia – Updates from Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste and Burma Compiled for the workshop above, this report provides a regional overview and individual country briefs on large-scale land acquisitions, highlighting challenges in terms of: preserving national sovereignty; ensuring national and local food security; having adequate institutional capacity and legal frameworks to regulate rapid changes in land ownership and use; providing tenurial security to both citizens and investors; ensuring that land acquisition from local communities and indigenous peoples is done fairly; guaranteeing respect for human rights; providing for rule of law and access to justice; preventing negative impacts on the environment; and avoiding negative impacts on the political economy and the undermining of sound land and forest governance. The studies pull together updated information about large-scale land acquisitions in the region, with the aim of identifying trends, common threats, divergences and possible solutions. They focus on land and forest tenure and human rights challenges. The national updates seek to summarize what laws and policies already in national human rights frameworks that could ensure respect for rights in large-scale land development and, on the basis of this analysis, recommend possible solutions to the problems identified. Download the full report or individual briefings … |
This week in review … Industrial model of producing both food and knowledge is faulty, researchers argue Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:01 PM PDT Farming and knowledge monocultures are misconceived LONDON, UK: In this article, the authors argue that the world's food needs can be met with a new vision for agriculture and science. In mainstream policy and corporate thinking, scientific knowledge and global markets are considered key for food security, which has resulted in the industrialization and laboratory research-led intensification of agricultural systems. This industrial monoculture model of production – of both food and knowledge – avoids its ecological and social costs while suppressing more effective sustainable alternatives, and under-exploits science's potential versatility. To generate more sustainable pathways to equitable and healthy food production and access, agricultural diversification is needed, with decentralized food-supply systems and a move towards more localized networks. This includes the strategic reorientation of agricultural research and development towards varied local conditions and needs, and towards farmers' knowledge – a global science for the public good. Read the article … |
This week in review … Developing countries call for a legally binding instrument to come out of the WIPO negotiations Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:56 PM PDT Developing countries seek legally binding instrument JAKARTA, INDONESIA: Like-minded developing countries urge advanced countries to show political will and expedite the negotiation process to draft a legally binding instrument for the protection of genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore in the framework of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This week, a three-day consultative meeting is being held in Bali, aimed at bridging differences before the WIPO General Assembly to be held in September 2013, and facilitate negotiations on the future work of the Intergovernmental Committee. Read the article … |
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