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systems for traditional knowledge
protection, access and benefit-sharing
and sustaining TK; develop local tools
for TK protection based on customary
laws (such as community protocols and
registers); and inform the development
of TK policies at national and
international levels. The project
developed the concept of ‘biocultural
heritage’ and used it as the conceptual
framework for research. The folder also
provides recommendations for
international policy on access to genetic
resources and benefit-sharing.
n Online: http://pubs.iied.org/14591IIED.html
Nagoya Protocol on
access to genetic
resources and the fair
and equitable sharing
of benefits arising from
their utilisation to the
Convention on
Biological Diversity
Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2011
This is the text and annex of the Nagoya
Protocol, which was adopted after six years
of negotiation at the tenth meeting of the
CBD Conference of Parties on 29th
October 2010, in Nagoya, Japan. The
Protocol provides a strong basis for greater
legal certainty and transparency for both
providers and users of genetic resources.
Specific obligations to support compliance
with domestic legislation or regulatory
requirements of the party providing
genetic resources and contractual
obligations reflected in mutually agreed
terms are a significant innovation of the
Protocol. These compliance provisions, as
well as provisions establishing more
predictable conditions for access to genetic
resources, will contribute to ensuring the
sharing of benefits when genetic resources
leave a party providing genetic resources.
In addition, the Protocol’s provisions on
access to traditional knowledge held by
indigenous and local communities when it
is associated with genetic resources will
strengthen the ability of these
communities to benefit from the use of
their knowledge, innovations and
practices.
n Online: www.cbd.int/abs/doc/protocol/
nagoya-protocol-en.pdf
Use it or lose it:
protecting the
traditional knowledge,
genetic resources and
customary laws of
marginal farmers in
southwest China
l Jingsong Li and
Yiching Song
IIED and CCAP, 2011
This report provides the findings and
lessons of the action-research project
Protecting Community Rights over
Traditional Knowledge: Implications of
Customary Laws and Practices in
Guangxi, southwest China. The project,
which started in 2004, sought to explore
customary laws, values and practices
relating to plant genetic resources (PGR)
and traditional knowledge (TK) with local
communities; develop innovative
practices and local tools for PGR and TK
protection; and inform national policy
and legislation. It builds on an ongoing
participatory plant breeding (PPB)
project in southwest China, which started
in 2000, and worked on PGR
conservation and improvement with
breeding institutes and local farmers.
n Online: http://pubs.iied.org/G02787.html
UN-REDD programme guidelines on free,
prior and informed consent (FPIC)
l Forthcoming, 2012
Indigenous peoples and forest-dependent
communities are essential to the success
of REDD+ given that the majority of the