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from genetic to landscape level, and long
standing knowledge and practices that
are vital for food and health security. The
website is divided into four sections:
• About BCH: explores the functions of
biocultural heritage in the context of
climate change, and the nature of
biocultural systems as complex dynamic
systems.
• Tools and materials: provides
information and examples of tools that
can be used to protect these systems and
related community rights: community
biocultural protocols, registers, products,
territories and partnerships.
• Policy and practice: reviews how the
provisions of international and national
laws support, or undermine, biocultural
heritage, and how various organisations
are supporting BCH in practice.
• Outputs and partners: provides
reports, publication and short films
produced by the project Protecting
Community Rights over Traditional
Knowledge: Implications of Customary
Laws and Practices (2005-2009).
The website is updated regularly with
relevant research, and will soon include
information and outputs from a new EC
project: Smallholder Innovation for
Resilience.
reviews and e-learning modules on key
legal frameworks; key publications such
as reports, articles, books, magazines and
journals; short films, slideshows and
photo stories; networking opportunities;
and links to existing community protocols
from Africa, Asia-Pacific and the
Americas.
n Visit the page on legal instruments:
http://tinyurl.com/cp-legal
Full URL: www.communityprotocols.org/toolkit/additional-resources/leg
al-resources/legal-instrument
See also on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/communityprotocols
COMPAS
www.compasnet.org
COMPAS (COMPAring and Supporting
Endogenous Development) is a capacitybuilding programme to develop and
mainstream endogenous development
methodologies for strengthening
biocultural diversity. It has field
programmes with local partners in
developing countries, and its work
includes the development of community
protocols.
Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD): the Nagoya Protocol on Access
and Benefit-sharing
www.cbd.int/abs
The official CBD website on the Nagoya
Protocol. The fair and equitable sharing
of the benefits arising out of the
utilisation of genetic resources is one of
the three objectives of the CBD.
Democratising agricultural research:
making excluded voices count in food
and agricultural policy making
www.excludedvoices.org
Community protocols portal
www.community-protocols.org
This portal is administered by Natural
Justice and contains comprehensive
resources on community protocols,
including: background and context; legal
This action-research programme, with
IIED and partners, aims to identify and
support processes that can help
democratise the governance of food and
agricultural research. Initiated in 2007,
this project has become established in