Policy and Regulation. Where appropriate, the parties will commit to engage further with key stakeholders such as the Forest Service (DAFM) and Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) to share information and influence best practice and related policies.
Policy and Regulation. Community Use of School District Facilities is governed by Policy 10400 – Community Use of Facilities & Grounds
Policy and Regulation. Although IMTA has a huge potential to tackle different economic and sustainability issues of aquaculture, the overall perception from stakeholders is that the Brazilian policies fails to support or help the development and adoption of IMTA in Brazil. The existent general regulations are indeed not applied to IMTA production systems, and development of specific regulations should be considered. Today, the environment licensing for IMTA can be even more difficult to be obtained when compared to the licensing of monoculture farming. The overall perception is that this discourages production system diversification, even though if IMTA could prove to the environmental agencies that these relatively new production systems can yield lower environmental impacts. To overcome the lack of specific legislations for IMTA, it has been suggested that policy makers and staff from the environmental and regulation institutions can be trained within IMTA concepts of sustainability, so they can better understand the benefits of IMTA systems. It has also been suggested that policy makers consider actions and partnerships to acquire datasets from the few available IMTA farms, and thus establish appropriate specific IMTA licensing policies. This would facilitate practical learning, and consequently, help speed up the analysis of the licensing petitions. Also, such a new legislation would include and categorize IMTA farms as belonging to a “low” environmental impact activity (e.g. reduced or zero effluents), creating the opportunity for a green label that would add value to products coming from IMTA production systems. The establishment of IMTA specific legislations would also open room for the improvement of other co-existing regulations to reduce operation costs. As an example, within the Brazilian Labour Ministry, all employees’ duties are classified by the Brazilian Occupation Classification (CBO) which recognize, nominate, and codify each job title, describing the characteristics of the different occupations (BRASIL, 2002). Considering this actual legislation, someone hired at a shrimp farm under the appropriate code CBO 6313 “Aquatic Animals Farming” would not be allowed to work with macroalgae at the same farm. A slight change in this classification code title to “Aquatic Organisms Farming” would permit the employer to hire one employee for both duties (shrimp + macroalgae farming) thus reducing labour costs. The development of the full potential of IMTA in Brazil depends ...
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