The Development Law Service

Afghanistan. View of a farmland and a village in Sarkani district ©FAO/Hashim Azizi

Videos

10/03/2022

The world's largest open access database of fresh water legislation & policy.

22/03/2024

The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme launched a Legal Hub in 2021. It is a user-friendly platform that provides easy access to legal texts and insightful analysis on all sectors related to sustainable wildlife management in over a dozen countries. The Legal Hub is now helping catalyze legal reform processes in many of these countries.

Webinars

The Legal Services for Development organizes regular webinars as part of its knowledge-sharing activities. Click the cards below to watch them:

18/06/2020

Land consolidation is a well-proven land management instrument, which has traditionally been used for agricultural development with a main objective of reducing land fragmentation and increasing holding and farm sizes. Some European countries have a land consolidation tradition that goes back a hundred years or more. It is also widespread in particular in countries in Asia but also in Africa.

29/04/2021

This video is a recording of the SWM Programme webinar, which took place on 15 April 2021. The presentations are in English and French. The webinar aimed to present the innovative approach by which the SWM Programme connects different sources of law (international law, national law, customary law) and scientific knowledge; and launch the SWM Programme’s online Legal Hub and tools.

19/05/2022

School meal nutrition guidelines and standards – a tool to support the right to food”. The webinar focused on the importance of policy and legal frameworks for the implementation of nutritional standards for school food, which can constitute a useful tool for realizing the right to adequate food for schoolchildren and adolescents.

25/01/2024

The "One Health" Legislative Assessment Tool for AMR (OHLAT) aims to assist countries in the identification and analysis of their AMR-relevant legislation across all sectors relevant to AMR.

24/01/2024

The webinar is about the lauch of Gender-Lex, a unique online legal database dedicated to advancing gender equality in agrifood systems through transformative legal frameworks. Gender-Lex provides a comprehensive view of gender-responsive national approaches embedded in sectoral legislation. It serves as a valuable knowledge resource to eliminate legal barriers to gender equality.