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1. Library Resource

   

   National Strategy on Lesotho’s Biological Diversity.

   National Policies

   Lesotho, Southern Africa, Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Forest Tenure

   land-use planning

   environment

   protected areas

   land management

   agricultural land management

   forest conservation

   farming systems

   land governance

   forestry

   fisheries

   sustainable land use

   deforestation

   farmland

   forest land

   agriculture

   In order to meet the challenges of environment and development, the government of Lesotho has elaborated this National Strategy of Biological Diversity in 2000.The strategy presents the following vision: Lesotho’s diversity of life systems are supported and protected by a nation which is environmentally conscious, whose people are in balanced existence with the natural environment, while deriving in diminishing and continuing benefits from the conservation benefits from the conservation and sustainable use of its biological diversity.In order to make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more

2. Library Resource

   

   Environment Act 2008 (No. 10 of 2008).

   Legislation

   Lesotho, Southern Africa, Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land-use planning

   environment

   fisheries

   natural disasters

   land management

   land law

   waste (abuse)

   This Act makes provision for the conservation and management of the environment and the sustainable use of natural resources in Lesotho.The Act consists of 116 sections divided into 16 Parts: Preliminary (I); General Principles (II); Institutional Arrangements (III); Environmental Planning (IV); Environmental Impact Assessment, Audits and Monitoring (V); Environmental Quality Standards (VI); Pollution Control (VII); Spill and Environmental Emergency (VIII); Environmental Management (IX); Environmental Restoration Notice and Order (X); Inspection and Record (XI); International Environmental

3. Library Resource

   

   National Range Resources Management Policy.

   National Policies

   Lesotho, Southern Africa, Africa

   Land & Gender

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   pastoralists

   land-use planning

   natural resources management

   land governance

   coastal areas

   environment

   fisheries

   natural disasters

   land management

   gender equity in access to land

   grazing

   Extreme environmental degradation characterised by severe degradation of rangelands resources in the country triggered the process of formulating the National Range Resources Management Policy.

4. Library Resource

   

   Environment Act 2001.

   Legislation

   Lesotho, Southern Africa, Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land-use planning

   environment

   fisheries

   natural disasters

   land management

   land law

   waste (abuse)

   This Act makes provision for the establishment of the National Environment Council, the Lesotho Environment Authority, the National Environmental Fund and the Environmental Tribunal and provides in general for the conservation and management of the environment in Lesotho.The Act consists of 123 sections divided into 16 Parts: Preliminary (I); General Principles (II); Institutional Arrangements (III); Environmental Planning (IV); Environmental Impact Assessment, Audits and Monitoring (V); Environmental Quality Standards (VI); Pollution Control (VII); Environmental Management (VIII); Environm

5. Library Resource

   

   Lesotho Highlands Development Authority Order (No. 23 of 1986).

   Regulations

   Lesotho, Southern Africa, Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   agricultural land management

   land-use planning

   farming systems

   environment

   fisheries

   natural resources management

   This Order establishes the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority as a body corporate and provides with respect to its functions, powers, administration and operation. The Act also concerns development of Lesotho Highlands and ancillary development matters such as water management and conservation, regulation of fisheries and protection of the environment.

6. Library Resource

   

   African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Revised version).

   المعاهدة الافريقية للمحافظة على الطبيعة والموارد الطبيعية.

   International Conventions or Treaties

   Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Benin, Nigeria, Mauritius, Mauritania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Eswatini, Ghana, Congo, Guinea, Ethiopia, Comoros, Eritrea, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Libya, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Chad, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Gambia, Mali, Burundi, Sao Tome and Principe, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Rwanda, Morocco, Niger, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, Côte d'Ivoire, Sudan, Cameroon, Kenya, Middle Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Northern Africa, Western Asia, Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   environment

   fisheries

   land management

   natural resources management

   The Contracting States, in the belief that objectives set out in the Preamble would be better achieved by amending the 1968 Algiers Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources by expanding elements related to sustainable development, have agreed on measures to enhance environmental protection, to foster the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources; and to harmonize and coordinate policies in these fields with a view to achieving ecologically rational, economically sound and socially acceptable development policies and programs for the Convention area.