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Free Prior and Informed Consent - An Indigenous Peoples’ Right and a Good Practice for Local Communities: Manual for Project Practitioners
2016
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization
This manual deeply rooted in a human rights based approach, is designed to assist development organizations to respect the right to FPIC when developing and implementing projects affecting Indigenous Peoples. The manual contains a six-step procedure to facilitate the FPIC process while showing its benefits, as well as providing the regulatory framework to be used when mainstreaming Indigenous Peoples’ rights within organizations’ policies and standards.
Terminal Evaluation of the Project "Enhancing Climate Change Resilience in the Benguela Current Fisheries System"
2023
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The report highlighted the outcome of the project Enhancing Climate Change Resilience in the Benguela Current Fisheries System.
Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions/Folklore: A Guide for Countries in Transition
2013
Author(s): World Intellectual Property Organization
This guide shows how a framework can be developed as part of an overall IP strategy, by improving existing mechanisms or by creating new ones. However, each country will need to consider the options that work best for it and the nature of the TK and TCEs for which protection is desired.
Guide on Digital Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services: Use of Smartphone Applications by Smallholder Farmers
2023
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
This guide provides a set of tools to enhance their digital skills in terms of basic knowledge and skills on using digital tools, methods of access to digital AEAS, methods of access to e-commerce, and capacity building.
UNAIDS Guidance for Partnerships With Civil Society, Including People Living With HIV and Key Populations
2012
Author(s): Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
This guidance responds to calls from partners that meaningful engagement with civil society including indigenous populations be incorporated into all areas of the Joint Programme’s work and that essential principles of engagement be reflected within the UBRAF and other key UNAIDS strategic, programming and budgeting documents.
Global Assessment of Soil Carbon in Grasslands
2023
Author(s): Dondini M, Martin M, De Camillis C, Uwizeye A, Soussana JF, Robinson T, Steinfeld H
The present study provides a spatially explicit report on the state of grassland soils and can be used as a baseline for future work to explore the impacts of livestock management on soil carbon at regional, country and farm levels.
Securing Land Rights for Indigenous Peoples in Cities
2011
Author(s): United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT)
The report provides an overview of the challenges facing Indigenous peoples in cities, with particular attention to the unique challenges facing Indigenous women, children and youth, people with disabilities, elders and sexual minorities.
The Business Reference Guide to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
2013
Author(s): UN Global Compact team
The objective of this guide (the “Guide”) is to help business understand, respect, and support the rights of indigenous peoples by illustrating how these rights are relevant to business activities
Biodiversity in Action
2023
Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The mutually reinforcing and complex nature of climate change and biodiversity loss requires the consideration of a variety of outcomes and the application of coordinated solutions, including nature-based solutions, that deliver the highest benefits and the fewest trade-offs, effectively mainstreaming them together.
This study shows that new roots that grow throughout the tree’s life must be pruned or manipulated to strengthen the bridge. Without active care, many bridges have decayed or grown wild, becoming unusable. Root bridges have also been observed in the Indian state of Nagaland.