To ensure sound policies and legislation guaranteeing equal access to resources and equitable benefits to citizens.
Despite the debates relating to community conservation, stakeholder involvement in conservation and equitable benefit sharing, progressive approaches to community conservation tend to permit traditional agricultural practises, that support biodiversity preservation, to operate only in land outside core conservation areas.
It is important that timely mechanisms be put in place to ensure equitable benefit sharing in future (Tuffuor 1999).
According to this document, a central tenet of ethical research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is reciprocity, or the need to ensure that "research outcomes include equitable benefits of value to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities or individuals" [ 43].
Therefore it would be unjust for a state not to provide fair and equitable benefit for an exchange of plant or micro-organism genetic material given to her.
These institutions need to scale up for reasons of ecological and economic scale, but also to simultaneously scale down to improve accountability, participation, and equitable benefit sharing (Child, unpublished data).
In this context, it examined forest policy measures that promote sustainable production and consumption; access to resources, markets and financing; equitable benefit sharing; and valuation of forest products and services.
The latter is influenced by collective organization and environmental history, with higher knowledge and more equitable benefit sharing present in the community with a more long-standing commitment to forest conservation.
Institutional arrangements play a crucial role in ensuring equitable benefit sharing of tourism gains among different stakeholders.
Greater institutional coordination, equitable benefit sharing mechanisms, and higher community capacity for monitoring, reporting, and verification are key areas needing change.
