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    A community guide to protecting Indigenous Knowledge

    Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2001
    This article is a guide, aimed at a community-level, to protecting Indigenous Knowledge.
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    People, Parks and Biodiversity: Issues in Population-Environment Dynamics

    American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
    This overview paper broadly addresses the complex relationship between biodiversity, people and protected areas.
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    Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when

    Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999
    Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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    Biodiversity and the appropriation of women's knowledge

    Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1997
    In the past few years research institutions and development organizations have 'discovered' the relevance of men farmers' indigenous knowledge of genetic resource management and, after some delay, that of women farmers as well. At the same time, attention has been drawn to the global need to conserve biological diversity.
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    Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 1998
    Explores how the institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agricultural and natural resource management.Technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentives for adoption, while those that operate on a large spatial scale will require collective action to coordinat
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    Options for the implementation of farmers' rights at the national level

    South Centre, 2000
    One of the main objectives of Farmers' Rights is to allow farmers, their communities, and countries in all regions, fully to participate in the benefits derived, at present and in the future, from the improved use of Plant Genetic Resources, through plant breeding and other scientific methods.
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    Farmers and seed

    Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001
    The theme of this Monitor issue is the involvement of farmers in seed production and development. Chapters are written by various experts.While Joshi examines the weakness of formal seed systems, he also highlights how formal systems can complement breeding efforts of farmers. However, Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) is still relatively new and many things remain to be explored.
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    Traditional forest-related knowledge and the Convention on Biological Diversity

    Convention on Biological Diversity, 1996

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