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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Traditional knowledge"”.
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Protection of traditional knowledge, an incomplete victory, towards inclusion of gender considerations in traditional knowledge protection: a Zambian perspective
… explores the important issue of protection of traditional knowledge from a gendered perspective. More specifically, it seeks to explore the traditional knowledge protection landscape in Zambia in the context of gender sensitivity and gender responsiveness. It further delves into the role of …
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Biodiversity, bioprospecting and patents: a case study of traditional knowledge in French Guiana.
… peoples through the application of their traditional knowledge. Indigenous peoples have used their knowledge and resources over the centuries, contributing to the conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity and the development of modern science. It is widely acknowledged that …
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A critical analysis of the protection of traditional knowledge within the Namibian legal system
… bio prospecting in, Namibia. This paper examines Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR’s)6within the Namibian context. It further examines whether the protection under the current Namibian intellectual property (IP) framework sufficiently protects all types of indigenous …
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Commercialisation of traditional knowledge in South Africa : whether the existing intellectual property framework encourages commercialisation
… area of IP for Indigenous people, also known as Traditional Knowledge (TK), has not been adequately protected due to complexities which cannot be accommodated by an international IP regime. This has led to poor or inadequate commercialisation of TK. TK is also not provided for by TRIPs, thus …
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Commercialisation of traditional knowledge in South Africa: whether the existing intellectual property framework encourages commercialisation.
… area of IP for Indigenous people, also known as Traditional Knowledge (TK), has not been adequately protected due to complexities which cannot be accommodated by an international IP regime. This has led to poor or inadequate commercialisation of TK. TK is also not provided for by TRIPs, thus …
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General biology of woodland caribou based on collection of local and traditional knowledge in north-central Saskatchewan
… is still poorly understood. Drawing upon the knowledge of a selected target group, interviews have been conducted to attain local and traditional knowledge on woodland caribou. Local knowledge has been used to identify key information about woodland caribou critical habitat and ecology in the …
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Intersections of community, traditional knowledge, and place: a park design for the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians
… this land and is reflected in their culture and traditional practices. Today for the Luiseño people, this relationship between land and culture is dissolving. This is especially true for the La Jolla Band of the Luiseño Indians. Recent shifts in both landscape and lifestyle threaten the …
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Investigating the sustainability of medicinal plants and the loss of traditional knowledge in a rural community in Namaqualand
… main aims were as follows: to evaluate the local knowledge regarding medicinal plants; to document the plants used and collected in Paulshoek; and to determine potential threats to the biological resource. This was achieved by employing a variety of social and ecological methods. It became …
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Strengthening the Integration of Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Impact Assessment: An Analysis of Inuit Place Names near Steensby Inlet, NU
… recognized the importance of both scientific and traditional knowledge to this task. Inuit place names are a form of traditional knowledge that has rarely been leveraged in environmental assessment despite their indication of historical land-use, ecological resources, and areas of cultural value. …
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Balancing indigeneous community rights and intellectual property rights in the protection of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in South Africa
The growing realisation of the importance of traditional knowledge in the commercial exploitation of genetic resources has fuelled intense debate over whether and how such traditional knowledge should be protected. This debate is also driven by the need to protect genetic resources and associated …
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Patents of traditional medicine inventions and their relationship with traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources in Namibia: proposals for legal reform
… industry in developing and processing traditional medicine into safe and efficacious drugs and vaccines and how patent law assist this achieving this end. The study argues that patenting of traditional medicine inventions is possible without encroaching on the protection accorded to TK …
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The legal implications of the WIPO treaty on intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on indigenous peoples of Uganda and Kenya
… continue to face the misappropriation of their Traditional Knowledge associated with Genetic Resources, often without their free, prior, and informed consent or fair compensation. Despite the adoption of international instruments and the enactment of domestic legislation aimed at protecting …
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Holding the line: assembling and mapping local and traditional knowledge of historic injustice and environmental change held by handline fishers in the Cape Agulhas region
… region of South Africa hold valuable local and traditional knowledge that is insufficiently incorporated in fishery governance. Several meta-level global directives including the Convention for Biodiversity (CBD), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the …
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Return of a Fragile X Syndrome Genetic Result: Exploring the feedback of Individual genetic findings and their relation to traditional knowledge in a village in Cameroon
… it was noted that healthcare workers had limited knowledge and a lack of expertise regarding FXS, whilst there was an overall lack of African qualitative literature on FXS. This set the precedent for the second and third components of the project. Methodology: An ethnographic approach was used in …
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The living library : an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is combating climate change, deforestation, and loss of traditional knowledge by preserving their plants in the wild
… attempt to revitalize and preserve indigenous knowledge systems of medicinal plant life in Shipibo culture. The living library of plants in Paoyhan provides an economic alternative to deforestation. They also hope to attract ecotourism, scientists, and possibly pharmaceutical companies. Making …
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Access and benefit-sharing regimes concerning the utilization of plant genetic resources and traditional knowledge regarding the use of plant genetic resources: using law, economics, and empirical methods to analyze plant genetic resources issues, including biopiracy, bioprospecting, and intellectual property
… regarding plant genetic resources (PGRs) and traditional knowledge regarding the use of PGRs. The developed world favors intellectual property rights (IPRs), and terms the collection of PGR samples from the developing world to be “Bioprospecting.” The developing world terms the collection of …
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