See 'Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC)'.

Before access to knowledge or genetic resources takes place(Prior), based on truthful information about the use that will be made of the knowledge or genetic resources that is adequate for the authority to understand the implications(Informed), the government, stakeholders or rights holders could be explicit consent(consent).

See “Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC)”.

Vegetation in a particular plant assemblage that has not been subject to human disturbance, or has been so little affected that its natural structure, functions and dynamics have not undergone any change that exceed the elastic capacity of the ecosystem.

Primary production is the process whereby inorganic carbon is fixed in the sunlit (euphotic) zone of the upper ocean, and forms the base of the marine food pyramid.

The conversion of energy to organic substances by photosynthetic and chemosynthetic autotrophic organisms.

The quantity of payment or compensation given by one party to another in return for goods or services.

Conservation measures that maintain land and its environmental and productive functions.

see direct drivers.

They denote stated or revealed choices of one or more alternatives over others and can be expressed in economic or sociocultural terms. Despite being considering synonyms for value in some disciplines (economics), preferences should be understood as rankings of possible outcomes in terms of their specific value to people (e.g. preferences related to health and good quality of life) (section 2.2.4.4).