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Book (series)Participatory forestry in Central Asia and the Caucasus: current legal trends and future perspectives 2008
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No results found.The objective of this paper is to identify the current legal trends in participatory forestry in the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) and in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).4 The region is unique and interesting because countries share a common Soviet past and currently present different degrees of departure from the centralized planning system and, in some cases, from the state’s exclusive ownership of natural resources.5 Three aspects wi ll be analyzed more specifically with respect to participatory forestry, against the background of international obligations and good practices: a) public participation in forest-related decision-making; b) public access to forest-related information; and c) the direct participation of local communities in forest management. Before turning to the comparative legal analysis, this study offers an overview of the region: the characteristics of the forest sector, the institutional and legal framewor k for forest management, as well as adherence to relevant international agreements. As some of the countries in the region are currently engaged in forest law reform, the study will conclude with some reflections on how to enhance participatory forestry. -
Book (series)Improving the legal framework for participatory forestry
Issues and options for Mongolia
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No results found.This paper represents part of an area of work in support of enhancing access to land and forest resources in support of rural livelihoods in Mongolia. It is based on learning emerging from an ongoing FAOsupported project called: Support to the development of participatory forest management (TCP/MON/2903). This project has involved the development (through extensive community-level consultations in forest areas) of a detailed Concept Document for the design and implementation of participatory for estry. It has also resulted in in-depth review of the legal opportunities and obstacles currently faced by participatory forestry. -
Book (series)Legal issues in international agricultural trade: WTO compatibility and negotiations on economic partnership agreements between the European Union and the African, Carribbean and Pacific States 2006
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No results found.The trade relations between the EU as a bloc on the one hand and the ACP countries as a bloc on the other, have for the last three decades been based on a series of “bilateral” treaties designed to provide non-reciprocal preferential terms of access for the products of the latter to the markets of the former – from Lomé I (1975-80), to Lomé II (1980-85), to Lomé III (1985-90), to Lomé IV (1990-1995, later revised and extended to stay until 2000, known as Lome IV bis), and finally to Cotonou (200 0 to 2008).1 It is interesting to observe at the outset that prior to Lomé ‘a number of ACP countries had granted reverse preferences to the EEC’.2 The Lomé process was therefore not just about creation of preferential market access for the products of ACP countries to the EC; it was also about dismantling those pre- Lomé reverse preferences for EC products to access ACP markets, thereby establishing non-reciprocity as the core principle of the Lomé acquis on trade matters. This is set to change now in several important ways and the seed of that change has already been planted in the Cotonou Agreement itself. Indeed, reintroduction of reverse preferences – also called reciprocity – will be a fundamental feature of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that are being negotiated at this moment under the Cotonou agenda.
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