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Photo: Johan Lorenzen
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Members of the Kukula Traditional Health Practitioners Association.
Through extensive internal discussion,
the members of Kukula decided to pool
some of their traditional knowledge collectively and shared this knowledge with a
small local cosmetic company so that any
benefits from the use of their knowledge
would flow back to the group as a whole.
In 2011 the association signed a NonDisclosure Agreement with the cosmetic
company to research the use of some of
their genetic resources and associated
traditional knowledge. They are hoping to
negotiate an access and benefit-sharing
agreement if the research leads to the