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Factsheet - Traditional Knowledge, Innovation and Practices
… Traditional Knowledge, Innovation and Practices Traditional knowledge is the knowledge, innovations and … 80% of the population continue to rely on traditional medicine for primary health care n Traditional medicine … Factsheet - Traditional Knowledge, Innovation and Practices …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation TK Traditional Knowledge, which is a term for “knowledge, … (REDD), respectively. The IRABS will regulate the way traditional knowledge (TK) and genetic resources (GR) are … by the first teacher (Siddha) of the Siddha system of medicine, Sage Agasthya. We do not harvest the medicinal …
Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… Stephen Nash, CITES Secretariat. 17 Ivory trinkets or traditional ivory amulets. 18 … diversity in combating desertification. It has embraced traditional knowledge, as part of the complex of cultural … social class-related roles 4.2.4 Practice of traditional medicine 4.3 Spirituality and belief systems 4.4 Artistic …
Document - ABS information kit
… of genetic resources owes a great deal to the traditional knowledge of indigenous and local communities. … down over generations. It is essential that the value of traditional knowledge is understood and valued appropriately … communities that rely on these natural resources for food, medicine, fuel and building materials, can continue to do so. …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… The components of Farmers’ Rights are: i) protection of traditional knowledge; ii) the fair and equitable sharing of … Progress is being made with regard to the protection of traditional knowledge; equitable benefit sharing; the … are sorted into four categories: (i) protection of Traditional Knowledge; (2) the fair and equitable sharing of …
Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 8 Wetlands -- a cultural landscape for learning and leisure
… for its medi- cinal properties. Medicinal mud, used in traditional Chinese medicine and recommended by the Greek physician Hippocrates, … wetlands now welcome large numbers of people for the more traditional visitor activities such as birdwatching, walking, …
Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 8 - Cultural values
… important Doñana wetlands of Andalusia, south-west Spain, traditional religious celebrations held annually include a … intertwined. In recent years, closer collaboration between traditional land-management techniques and western science have seen traditional burning practices used to restore a more mixed …
Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 4 Working in wetlands -- the tools of the trade
… that serve as housing and shops as well as for the more traditional uses such as fishing and transportation. Striking … forth the creative talents of people for millennia.” Traditional fishing in the Parque Nacional de los Roques, a …
Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… 91 ARTICLE 7 ACCESS TO TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE ASSOCIATED WITH GENETIC RESOURCES … 131 ARTICLE 12 TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE ASSOCIATED WITH GENETIC RE- SOURCES … plant are substance of the content in the product (natural medicine, natural cosmetics, dietary supplement) NOTE: no …