Side Event

TROPICAL SAVANNA BIOMES: SUSTAINABLE USE AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION

Organizer
Ministério do Meio Ambiente

Date and Time
24 March 2006 18:30 - 20:15

Meeting
Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8)

Successful examples of sustainable use of principally non timber products by traditional communities, in Savanna Biomes from Brazil, Venezuela and two African Countries, will be presented as repliable models for poverty alleviation. Advance of the industrial agriculture and pasture and deficient public policies for this sector put in risk the socioagrobiodiversity of these biomes in the world.