Sustainable use

This page provides selected links to documents and websites regarding ongoing initiatives for promoting sustainable use of natural resources through market access and trade, in particular those involving other MEAs, which are relevant to SLM.

Documents

Addis Ababa principles and guidelines for the sustainable use of biodiversity (CBD, 2004)

BioTrade principles and criteria (UNCTAD, 2006)

Conservation and sustainable use in arid and semi-arid zones: Selected case studies (UNEP et al, 2002)

Changes in “customary” land tenure systems in Africa (IIED, 2007)

The economics of certified organic farming in tropical Africa (DIIS, 200)

Extractive industries in arid and semi-arid zones: Environmental planning and management (IUCN, 2003)

ISEAL code of good practice for setting environmental and social standards (ISEAL, 2006)

Operational program on sustainable land management (GEF, 2003)

Pastoralism: Drylands’ invisible asset? Developing a framework for assessing the value of pastoralism in East Africa (IIED, 2006)

Strategies for sustainable land management
and poverty reduction in Uganda (IFPRI, 2004)

Sustainable land management: Challenges, opportunities and trade-offs (World Bank, 2006)

Websites

Africa Resources Trust
www.art.org.zw

CIC - International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation
www.cic-wildlife.org

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) biodiv.org/programmes/socio-eco/use/default.asp

Declaration in Support of Protecting Nature With High-yield Farming and Forestry
www.highyieldconservation.org/index.html

The Equator Initiative
www.undp.org/equatorinitiative

ETC Ecoculture
www.etc-ecoculture.org

FAO Natural Resources Management and Environment Department
www.fao.org/nr

GEF Land Degradation
www.gefweb.org/projects/Focal_Areas/land/land.html

IDRC Rural Poverty and Environment Program Initiative (RPE)
www.idrc.ca/biodiversity

IIED Natural Resources
www.iied.org/NR

International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance  (ISEAL)
isealalliance.org

IUCN Species Trade and Use Unit
www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/our_work/
wildlife_trade/indexwildlife_trade.htm

IUCN Sustainable Use Specialist Group (IUCN SUSG)iucn.org/themes/ssc/susg/

IUCN/WWF Traffic Network
www.traffic.org/Home.action

IWMC World Conservation Trust
www.iwmc.org

Man in Nature
www.maninnature.com

Network for Ecofarming in Africa
www.necofa.org

Sustainable Land Use Research Initiative (SLURI)
www.sluri.org.nz

UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative
www.biotrade.org