Banishing the Biopirates: A New Approach to Protecting Traditional Knowledge

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5948
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Type:	Book
Author:	Swiderska, Krystyna
Date:	2006
Agency:	International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London
Series:	Gatekeeper, no. 129
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5948
Sector:	Social Organization
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Subject(s):	natural resources biodiversity governance and politics livelihoods law indigenous knowledge
Abstract:	"This paper describes how indigenous and farmers’ organisations are calling for more holistic approaches to protecting their rights to TK, bio-genetic resources, territories, culture and customary laws. These components of indigenous knowledge systems and heritage cannot be separated. A new framework for protecting TK, known as collective bio-cultural heritage, addresses biodiversity and culture together, rather than separating them; recognises collective as opposed to individual rights; and places them in the framework of ‘heritage’ as opposed to ‘property’."

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