INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
BOOKS FROM THE IDRC:
IDRC Reports Archive
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and Cases
Lore - Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge
Knowledge broker initiative: linking creators and users of knowledge
Putting a price on Indigenous Knowledge
Nature's bounty: nothing protects the rights of indigenous farmers
Beyond Intellectual Property. Toward traditional resource rights for indigenous peoples and local communities
Beyond Intellectual Property. In conversation with Darryl Posey
Technology Policy and Practice in Africa
People, Plants, and Patents: Book Review by Steve Emmon -- Genes, share them or lose them
People, Plants, and Patents: The Impact of Intellectual Property on Trade, Plant Biodiversity, and Rural Society
People, Plants, and Patents: Different Viewpoints
MIKS: How can indigenous knowledge best be used to benefit the people who possess it?
Review of the debate "Indigenous Rights: An Historical Challenge", convoked by the CNI and the FZLN
JOURNALS:
Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor/Indigenous Knowledge and Development Network
IK and Development Monitor: Biodiversity conservation and indigenous knowledge: rethinking the role of anthropology
KNOWLEDGE BASES:
STPRC Research Reports
IK resource centres
Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server
The Institute for Economic Justice and Indigenous Technology
Faculty Publication: "Indigenous Development of Technology in India - A Critical Analysis
Eldis Biodiversity and Conservation Guide
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS:
Introduction and Index to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) info sheets from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
No. 1: Intellectual property rights and biodiversity
No. 2: GATT and Third World Pharmaceuticals
No. 3: Pirates of Diversity: The Global Threat to the Earth's Seeds
No. 4: rBGH, Monsanto and Corporate Agriculture
No. 5: A Primer on Agricultural Biotechnology
No. 6: The Human Genome Diversity Project and its Implications for Indigenous Peoples
No. 7: Patenting of Life and its Implications for Indigenous Peoples
No. 8: Genetic Engineering
No. 9: Releases of Genetically Engineered Plants and their Impacts on Less Developed Countries
No. 10: GATT and Retail Food Cooperatives
No. 11: International Policy on Plant Genetic Engineering
CULTURAL RIGHTS:
The Mataatua Declaration on Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Information Sheet 6. International Indigenous Peoples Discourses
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Last Updated on August 31, 1998 by
Henri Fortuin from the CSIR