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Book Title: Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
Editor(s): Bubela, Tania; Gold, Richard E.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN (hard cover): 9781848442238
Section: Chapter 1
Section Title: Introduction: Indigenous Rights and Traditional Knowledge
Author(s): Bubela, Tania; Gold, E. Richard
Number of pages: 28
Extract:
1. Introduction: Indigenous rights and
traditional knowledge
Tania Bubela and E. Richard Gold
INTRODUCTION
Indigenous peoples1 possess internationally recognized knowledge in areas as
diverse as conservation and agricultural practices, classification systems, land
use practices and sustainable management of natural resources, healthcare
practices, and medicinal properties of local species.2 Because of the value of
this knowledge, both indigenous peoples and commentators have been
concerned about its exploitation by non-indigenous peoples; the same
concerns apply to the diverse genetic resources found on indigenous lands.
These concerns have led to calls for the protection of indigenous or traditional
knowledge (TK) and calls for sharing of the benefits derived from the
exploitation of TK. How protection and benefit sharing are to be accom-
plished, however, is a highly divisive and controversial topic, dividing
resource-rich developing countries from those with advanced industrial and
research capacity.
This book aims at describing early efforts at defining and protecting TK
nationally and internationally, at summarizing the existing state of interna-
tional negotiations over TK, culminating in The Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples and The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing,
and at opening up discussion of non-proprietary approaches to protecting the
interests of indigenous peoples in TK. While the early negotiations achieved
1 International Labour Organization (ILO), Convention concerning Indigenous
and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, C169, 27 June 1989 (entered into force
6 September 1991) (Indigenous peoples are those who are regarded as indigenous on
account of their descent from ...
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