Conservation, Sustainable Use & Access and Benefit Sharing
The bacterial banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) disease will endanger the livelihoods of millions of East African farmers if left uncontrolled, according to specialists. First reported about 40 years ago in Ethiopia, BXW is endemic in most of Uganda, and has been reported in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya and Rwanda.
It has been very interesting to see a renewed and invigorated debate recently over biofuels. But that debate has been interestingly couched in terms of the growing debate around so-called climate colonialism. The argument is based around the idea that large tracts of land in developing are being converted to monoculture for biofuels in order to feed the demand for energy in the developed world. Moreover, it is argued that the costs of such an energy transfer from South to North is related to massive loss of biodiversity, huge water impacts and the continuation of poverty.
Montreal, 3 June 2009 – At the closure of the high-level segment of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Mr. Sigmar Gabriel, Minister of the Environment of Germany, presented the “Bonn Agenda on Global Biodiversity”, which includes the mobilization of financial resources “including new and innovative funding mechanisms on all levels”. Accordingly, the First Global Private Donor Forum on Biodiversity was convened in Berlin on 3 June 2009.
Ethiopia has published the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). You can download the document below.
The list of Endemic plants of Ethiopia is produced and published here. You can download the document below.
