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BEST PRACTICES:
Success stories on traditional knowledge related to
agro-biodiversity
Most countries in the South which have
taken account of the protection of farmers' traditional knowledge relevant to
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in their legislation have done
so through legislation regarding the protection of biological diversity in
general. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Chile, India and Vietnam are examples here.
Several countries have provisions pertaining to the protection of farmers'
traditional knowledge in their regulations on access to genetic resources - for
example, Ethiopia and the Philippines. Some countries have included such
protection in legislation pertaining to indigenous peoples, as in Peru. A few
countries have relevant provisions in their legislation on plant variety
protection, such as India. Nevertheless, little has been achieved in terms of
protection with regard to implementing such legislation, and thus there are few
successes to highlight in this report.
Whereas such legislation is
often targeted at protection against misappropriation of traditional knowledge,
there are a range of other measures, not subject to legislation, which aim at
protecting traditional knowledge from extinction. Typically these concern
documentation and maintenance of the knowledge and activities related to gene
banking. Many projects and programmes are being carried out in the South, often
by NGOs, and often supported by NGOs in the North. Also in the North there are
various programmes of this type, frequently carried out by - or supported by -
government agencies.
Read more:
Cataloguing potatoes and traditional
knowledge in Peru
In situ
conservation in Switzerland
Community registry in the Philippines
Rediscovering traditional knowledge
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