Priorities for protecting ecosystem services must be identified to ensure future human well-being. Approaches to broad-scale spatial prioritization of ecosystem services are becoming increasingly popular and are a vital precursor to identifying locations where further detailed analyses of the management of ecosystem services is required (e.g., examining trade-offs among management actions).
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Library ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsseptembre, 2012Global
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresfévrier, 2012
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Examples from Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador
Rapports et recherchesRessources et Outils d'entraînementdécembre, 2012Équateur, Mexique, Amérique latine et CaraïbesMexico, Costa Rica, and Ecuador have substantial experience with implementing payments for ecosystem services (PES) and conservation incentive programs. Yet, many aspects of their experiences remain poorly understood and will require special attention in any new or expanded use of these types of incentives.
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Library ResourceArticles et LivresRapports et recherchesjuillet, 2012Kenya
In Kenya, insecure land tenure and inequitable access to land and natural resources have contributed to conflict and violence, which has in return exacerbated food insecurity. Most farmers in Kenya have no legal title for the land on which they farm. Sources of tenure insecurity can be ethnic conflicts over land between neighbouring communities, particularly in the Northern provinces, expropriation by the state or local government and land grabbing by local elite or companies. Competition is as well growing over water, especially over groundwater, which is scarce in Kenya.
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A Case Study of Kajiado County
Rapports et recherchesmai, 2012KenyaFiscal instruments are tools that governments use to manage revenue and expenditure and therefore influence the growth (or stability) of the various sectors of the economy. Government revenue is derived primarily through taxation. In Kenya, land taxation has contributed less than 1% of government revenue for the past three years. The Sessional Paper No.
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Experiences and insights from working to secure hunter-gatherer and pastoralist land rights in Northern Tanzania
Rapports et recherchesdécembre, 2012République-Unie de TanzanieIn this publication two pioneering grassroots organisations from northern Tanzania examine and present their experiences and insights from their long-term work to secure the land rights of hunter-gatherer and pastoral communities. The case studies were presented at a one-day learning event held on 5th October 2012, when Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC) and Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) joined together to share and reflect on their work to secure land rights, to learn from each other, and to identify ways to build on their achievements moving forward.
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Report No.3 , Kenya.
Publication évaluée par des pairsseptembre, 2012KenyaAcross the world, areas with high or important biodiversity are often located within Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ conserved territories and areas (ICCAs). Traditional and contemporary systems of stewardship embedded within cultural practices enable the conservation, restoration and connectivity of ecosystems, habitats, and specific species in accordance with indigenous and local worldviews. In spite of the benefits ICCAs have for maintaining the integrity of ecosystems, cultures and human wellbeing, they are under increasing threat.
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Preserving Rights to gain Benefits
Publication évaluée par des pairsdécembre, 2012République-Unie de TanzanieThis chapter addresses issues related to securing access and rights to resources, and gaining benefits from the resource within the context of one community-based initiative in the village of Ololosokwan in Tanzania.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesjuin, 2012République-Unie de Tanzanie
The primary aim of this study is to investigate the size of the range lost to other forms of land uses. This will support the argument that it is time to reconsider the pastoralists sector as a legitimate mode of production in the country which, like other sectors, deserve due priority.
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Library ResourceLégislation et politiquesjuin, 2012République-Unie de Tanzanie
A comprehensive legal analysis highlighting gaps and recommendations in the four selected land related legislations in Tanzania.
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