Nagoya Protocol Archives - Resource Africa

Community stewardship: the foundation of biocultural rights

Resource Africa Jul 22, 2022 0 Comments

Community stewardship: the foundation of biocultural rights Kabir Sanjay Bavikatte, Tom Bennett Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 6 No. 1, March 2015, pp. 7–29 SUMMARY: The term ‘biocultural rights’ denotes a community’s long established right, in accordance with its customary laws, to steward its lands, waters and resources. Such rights are being increasingly recognized...

CBD: RA represented at the Parallel NGO Forum in Kunming.

Resource Africa Nov 08, 2021 0 Comments

CBD: RA represented at the Parallel NGO Forum in Kunming The Conventional on Biological Diversity (CBD) NGO Parallel Forum in Kunming was held in September 27 - 28. This was a unique opportunity for NGOs such as Resource Africa to join with the African CSOs Biodiversity Alliance (ACBA) to participate in the 2-day forum that was held virtually. Fred Kwame Kumah of ACBA gave 2-minute statement...

Sustainable use of Wildlife: It’s the Law!

Resource Africa Sep 08, 2021 0 Comments

Sustainable Use of Wildlife: It’s The Law! Webinar - The Nagoya Protocol and the Rights of Local Communities Resource Africa (RA) recently launched a policy position paper entitled Indigenous Flora and Fauna, African Resources for African People, wherein we argued for the inclusion of the sustainable use of wildlife into the UN Convention of Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Nagoya Protocol....

Indigenous Rooibos tea farmers seek a fairer deal

Resource Africa Jul 28, 2021 0 Comments

South Africa's indigenous rooibos tea farmers seek a fairer deal - Financial Times report by Joseph Cotterill Financial Times July 27, 2021 In an article published on July 27, Financial Times correspondent, Joseph Cotterill reports on one of the Khoi and San communities in South Africa's Cedarberg mountain region where the rooibos tea plant occurs in the wild. In 2019, the community - the...

A New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement Debuts

Resource Africa Jul 13, 2021 0 Comments

Press Release: A New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement Debuts Montreal, 12 July 2021 – The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat today released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people.The framework...

Is the notion of sustainable use of biodiversity a legal principle of international law?

Resource Africa Jun 11, 2021 0 Comments

Is the notion of sustainable use of biodiversity a legal principle of international law? by Prof Ademola Oluborode Jegede in collaboration with Lesle Jansen Sustainable use is a functional concept to mediate the tension between human being survival and the need for conservation of biodiversity. While the notion is often mentioned here and there in project cycles, it is sometimes unreflectively...

Community Leaders Network SBSTTA Statement

Resource Africa Feb 18, 2021 0 Comments

Community Leaders Network: SBSTTA Statement Leave no voice unheard! Sustainable use of biodiversity is a human rights issue in Africa We, the Community Leaders Network (CLN), representing community organisations engaged in conservation in nine Southern African Countries, commend the work of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) since its fourteenth...

Community Leaders Network Convention on Biological Diversity SBSTTA-24

CLN will be represented at the information sessions for Convention on Biological Diversity SBSTTA-24

Resource Africa Feb 17, 2021 0 Comments

The CLN will be represented at the information sessions for the Convention on Biological Diversity SBSTTA-24 A delegation of the Community Leaders Network (CLN) is attending the virtual informal sessions in preparation for the Convention on Biological Diversity SBSTTA-24 and will have their voices heard through a statement, soon to be released, on African's rights to sustainably use their...