Farmers’ Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge

Brush, Stephen B.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.05.018

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“…Ethnobotanical research often broaches on bioprospecting and biopiracy, and this is a point of serious ethical consideration (Brush 2007, Murray et al 1991. Therefore, in the current investigation, cautionary steps in the form of community registries to control the access to plant knowledge (c.f.…”

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Conservation and Ethnobotanical Knowledge of a Hmong Community in Long Lan, Luang Prabang, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Whitney

Sin²,

Hong

et al. 2014

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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txoj cai Hmoob coj yog ib txoj cai zoo rau ntawm kev pov hwm hav zoov hav tsuag rau qhov hav zoov niaj hnub no raug luaj ntov nyob rau xeev Luang prabang, los Tsuas Teb. IntroductionLand use change from forests to agriculture and industry are the leading cause of deforestation in the tropics and sub-tropics, which contain more than half of the world's forests (FAO 2011). The causes for the high rates of deforestation in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (hereinafter "Laos") are varied and the subject of some debate. Logging has been officially banned since the early 1990s (except in National Production Forest under approved management plans, for reservoir clearance, or for a variety of "special quotas") but still plays a major role in deforestation, in conjunction with pressure from immigration (Thapa 1998). Pioneer shifting agriculture has also recently been banned, but this may lead to more permanent agriculture and greater losses of biodiversity (Fox 2000). Conservation and Ethnobotanical Knowledge of a Hmong Community in Long

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Conservation and Ethnobotanical Knowledge of a Hmong Community in Long Lan, Luang Prabang, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Whitney

Sin²,

Hong

et al. 2014

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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“…Chander and Sunder 2004;Ankersen and Ruppert 2006; see also Aoki 2009; see also Brush 2005 [not a law professor]) Formal IP in the past has been rather hostile to many of these claims. Patents, for example, were not available to such useful innovations as plants derived from traditional agricultural methods; nor has copyright extended to tales and artistic works coming from folk traditions.…”

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Ostrom and the lawyers: The impact of Governing the Commons on the American legal academy

Rose

2011

Int J Commons

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American legal academics began to cite Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (GC) shortly after its 1990 publication, with citations peaking in the mid-2000s and with signs of a new peak in 2010 in the wake of Ostrom's Nobel Prize in Economics. The legal scholars most interested in GC have worked in three areas: general property theory, environmental and natural resource law, and since the mid-1990s, intellectual property. In all those areas legal scholars have found GC and its many examples a strong source of support for the proposition that people can cooperate to overcome common pool resource issues, managing resources through informal norms rather than either individual property or coercive government. Legal academics have also been at least mildly critical of GC, however. A number have tried to balance the attractive features of GC's governance model -stability and sustainability -with more standard legal models favoring toward open markets, fluid change and egalitarianism.

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“…Similarly, Brush (2005) questions the significance of bioprospecting in protecting traditional agricultural knowledge and argues for a common pool approach with genetic resources remaining in the public domain. Brush examines the nature of crop genetic resources, farmers' knowledge, and the nature of the 'common heritage' regime that was being partly dismantled by the CBD.…”

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Gender, Local Knowledge and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity

Lambrou¹,

Laub²

2007

Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

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This paper explores the linkages between gender, local knowledge systems and agrobiodiversity for food security by using the case study of LinKS, a regional FAO project in Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Tanzania over a period of eight years and now concluded. The project aimed to raise awareness on how rural men and women use and manage agrobiodiversity, and to promote the importance of local knowledge for food security and sustainable agrobiodiversity at local, institutional and policy levels by working with a diverse range of stakeholders to strengthen their ability to recognize and value farmers' knowledge and to use gender-sensitive and participatory approaches in their work. This was done through three key activities: capacity building, research and communication. The results of the LinKS study show clearly that men and women farmers hold very specific local knowledge about the plants and animals they manage. Local knowledge, gender and agrobiodiversity are closely interrelated. If one of these elements is threatened, the risk of losing agrobiodiversity increases, …/.

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Farmers’ Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge

Cited by 111 publications

References 28 publications

Conservation and Ethnobotanical Knowledge of a Hmong Community in Long Lan, Luang Prabang, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Conservation and Ethnobotanical Knowledge of a Hmong Community in Long Lan, Luang Prabang, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Ostrom and the lawyers: The impact of Governing the Commons on the American legal academy

Gender, Local Knowledge and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity

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