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This book encompasses a broad range of natural resource sectors, with discrete chapters on water, land, forestry, fisheries, mining, petroleum and agriculture. Given this broad range of areas...

This Legal Brief reviews the concept of sustainability and systems thinking in legislative efforts, as well as relevant guiding principles. It then reviews a number of legal tools and mechanisms...

Los hallazgos del análisis al marco político y legal relacionado con la política de cambio climático del subsector café de...

Colombian seed laws and policies have undergone significant evolution to regulate and facilitate the innovation process. Beginning with the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture, the founding of ICA, and culminating in the present...

This article explores the fundamental right to food, examining its legal framework, its relationship with other human rights, and the efforts being made globally to improve this right...

This article explores the various divergences and convergences between the international and national legal approaches, reviews soil and land management law as well as food security and nutrition legal...

An enabling environment with clear, inclusive, and transparent seed laws, policies, regulations, and guidelines is the foundation for an efficient and effective seed sector. If well designed and implemented, the legal...

The conservation, sustainable use and development of aquatic genetic resources (AqGR) is critical to the future supply of fish. The State of the World’s Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is the first...

Key messages Secure tenure increases the positive impacts of LDN initiatives for people and the planet. Addressing tenure in LDN initiatives begins with the assessment of local needs and...

India was the third country in the world to enact into law a constitutional commitment to the right to food, following Brazil and South Africa. The 2013 National Food Security Act...