Builder of bridges across troubled waters

Mine owners, loosen purse strings

New mining bill proposes sharing 26 per cent profits with affected people

Can Montreal help communities: Access and benefit-sharing mechanisms are yet to translate to real gains

Nagoya Protocol sets clear mandates for potential users of genetic resources to obtain prior informed consent  from the communities …

Can mining be sustainable?

Two main pre-conditions for achieving sustainability are good governance and self-regulating mining enterprises

How does water dictate India's relations with neighbours?

China’s dam-building and water division plans along the Brahmaputra River are a source of tension with India

Jharkhand’s own Amul model

A model where small producers engage in a large-scale economic activity is important in the development laboratory of India

A mythical tragedy

At the root of the tragedy of commons lies not the inherent selfishness of people, but the imposition of practices and projects alien to the …

Are millets safe from biopiracy?

2023 is the International Year of the Millets and during the year, efforts would be made to promote this superfood

Access and benefit-sharing: Paper proposes 8 principles on use of indigenous medicine

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted last year respects the rights of indigenous people on biodiversity  

Road to COP15 Montreal: Cameroon hopes to benefit from its rich biodiversity

It also expects that the conference will result in commitments to foster technology transfer in a way that helps developing countries benefit …

Bundelkhand's bravehearts

For villages that survived recurring droughts, the economic-ecological connection makes more sense

Should conservation be privatised?

Since the late 1960s, many African countries, including Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, have adopted a new approach to conservation.…

Biodiversity governance: A mix of knowledge and forest management for benefit sharing

People’s biodiversity register a roadmap for forest management plans; it documents knowledge of status, history, ongoing changes and …

Biodiversity governance: Access and benefit sharing and its implications on agricultural resources

A special instrument for access to crop genetic resources, access and benefit sharing (ABS) system, is fraught with challenges  

A bill for biodiversity

CoP-11 has an urgent agenda: to look for money to fund new targets

Slow to share

Biodiversity convention makes tardy progress

Lip service

Bullets are not the answer to development

COP15: Access and benefit-sharing important agenda at UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, Canada

COP15 is particularly important as a new global biodiversity framework is set to be adopted.

Forest conservation receives government recognition

The 14th Finance Commission of India has reinforced the idea of incentivising states for keeping areas under forests

Third side of a coin!

We must not manifest prejudices against societies with primitive technology, without understanding their challenges completely

Money on trees

Book>> The Little REDD Book--can we learn from a review of proposals and positions for developing a global system of payments for …

A Fair Deal?

DTE Senior Editor Latha Jishnu explains how the access and benefit sharing protocol on biodiversity is -- and isn't -- a fair deal for …

Biodiversity governance: The agreements and laws that help enforce it

Major legally binding conventions to protect nature were adopted at the Rio Summit where several countries came together amid rapidly …

Agreement on sharing pathogen access unlikely at World Health Assembly, may delay pandemic treaty

Even after two years of negotiations, countries have not reached a consensus on the finer details of the pandemic agreement