http://agro.biodiver.se Crops, animals, wild relatives ... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:06:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://agro.biodiver.se/about/comment-page-1/#comment-952689 Rahul Goswami Thu, 19 May 2011 14:00:33 +0000 #comment-952689 This I think you will like (text from the website): http://www.bioculturalheritage.org/ Nature and culture are deeply linked. Together they are central to the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of marginalised people around the world, and will be critical to how they respond to climate change and other environmental challenges. Policies and laws on traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources tend to protect only the intellectual part of TK systems. For indigenous peoples, though, knowledge cannot be separated from the biological resources, landscapes, cultural values and customary laws that ensure its inter-generational transmission. It is these biocultural systems as a whole that have enabled indigenous peoples to develop and conserve thousands of traditional crop varieties, livestock breeds and medicines over millennia. This new website draws on research by IIED, research partners and indigenous communities in Peru, Panama, Kenya, India and China to provide: * Understanding of the nature and importance of biocultural systems, and the threats they face. * Practical tools and strategies for protecting biocultural systems: community biocultural protocols, registers, products and agreements. * Emerging biocultural policy and legal frameworks. This I think you will like (text from the website):
http://www.bioculturalheritage.org/
Nature and culture are deeply linked. Together they are central to the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of marginalised people around the world, and will be critical to how they respond to climate change and other environmental challenges.
Policies and laws on traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources tend to protect only the intellectual part of TK systems. For indigenous peoples, though, knowledge cannot be separated from the biological resources, landscapes, cultural values and customary laws that ensure its inter-generational transmission.
It is these biocultural systems as a whole that have enabled indigenous peoples to develop and conserve thousands of traditional crop varieties, livestock breeds and medicines over millennia.
This new website draws on research by IIED, research partners and indigenous communities in Peru, Panama, Kenya, India and China to provide:
* Understanding of the nature and importance of biocultural systems, and the threats they face.
* Practical tools and strategies for protecting biocultural systems: community biocultural protocols, registers, products and agreements.
* Emerging biocultural policy and legal frameworks.

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