Agriculture and natural resources governance - Legal tools for inclusive and sustainable transformation

Gobena, A.; Vidar, M.;

Agriculture and natural resources governance - Legal tools for inclusive and sustainable transformation

Legal Brief No. 12

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 10p.

Author Gobena, A.; Vidar, M.;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Policy brief

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Synopsis (short abstract) 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, namely impact assessments, planning instruments, establishing appropriate stakeholder participation bodies, clearly defining (and safeguarding) rights of access to a resource while conserving the resource base, protecting labour rights, benefit sharing, offering fiscal incentives for prescribed management practices or the use of prescribed technologies and materials, establishing certification schemes that attest to sustainable production, extraction or harvesting, designating areas for specific uses and objectives (e.g. protected areas) and in situ and ex situ conservation of genetic resources.

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Gobena, A. and Vidar, M. 2023. Agriculture and natural resources governance – Legal tools for inclusive and sustainable transformation. Legal Brief, No. 12. Rome, FAO.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc7690en

Language English

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