economic growth on Aboriginal lands [ economic growth on Indigenous lands ]

Regional and Native Economic Development Program

Canadian Aboriginal Economic Development Strategy [ CAEDS | Native Economic Development Program ]

Improving access to economic enablers (€20 million): through this programme, the EU will continue to support economic development of Palestine by helping to facilitate access to natural resources, water and land, and to enhance competiveness and market access for Palestinian agribusinesses.

204. Calls for concerted EU action to address the problem of land-grabbing through the promotion of adequate safeguards to prevent it in the countries concerned and among EU and other European companies present in those countries; notes that the denial of access to land and natural resources to the rural and urban poor is one of the key causes of hunger and poverty in the world, thereby having an impact on the local communities’ enjoyment of their human rights, and particularly on their right to adequate food; calls for an assessment of the impact of EU trade policy on land-grabbing; welcomes the EU’s involvement in the development of the global Volun ...[+++]tary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, adopted under the aegis of the UN, and calls for their implementation and for the adoption of binding guidelines for preventing land-grabbing; emphasises, nevertheless, the urgent need to mainstream human rights and poverty reduction considerations in decision-making regarding the acquisition or long-term lease of large areas of land by investors; considers the EU’s response to this issue to be an important test of its commitment to moving toward a rights-based approach in its development cooperation policy, as envisioned in the Lisbon Treaty and through which the EU's development policy would further contribute to the sustainable economic, social and environmental development of developing countries, with the primary aim of eradicating poverty in the world; calls for the EU to commit, in line with the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, to a fundamental shift towards agro-ecology as a means of guaranteeing the right to food;

15. Recognises that the effects of melting ice and milder temperatures not only bear the risk of displacing indigenous populations and thereby threatening the indigenous way of life, but also create opportunities for economic development in the Arctic region; acknowledges the wish of the inhabitants and governments of the Arctic region with sovereign rights and responsibilities to continue to pursue sustainable economic development while at the same time protecting traditional sources of the ...[+++]indigenous peoples’ livelihood and the very sensitive nature of Arctic ecosystems;

20. Recognises that the effects of the melting ice and milder temperatures do not only carry the risk of displacing indigenous populations and thereby threatening the indigenous way of life but are also liable to create opportunities for economic development in the Arctic region; aAcknowledges the wish of the inhabitants and governments of the Arctic region with sovereign rights and responsibilities to continue to pursue sustainable economic development while at the same time protecting the t ...[+++]raditional sources of the indigenous peoples’ livelihoods and the very sensitive nature of Arctic ecosystems;