The Samburu
Community
Protocol about
the Samburu
Indigenous
Livestock Breeds
and their
Rights to their
Indigenous
Livestock Genetic
Resources and
Role in Global
Biodiversity
Management
gional levels of non- governmental organizations and local populations,
both women and men, particularly resource users, including farmers
and pastoralists and their representative organizations, in policy planning, decision-making, and implementation and review of national action programmes”.
3. The Samburu shall have the right to appropriate training and capacity building and equal access to relevant services enabling and
supporting us to raise livestock and to better process and market our
products.
This right is supported by:
Article 12 (a) of the Convention on Biological Diversity obliges Parties to
“establish and maintain programmes for scientific and technical education
and training in measures for the identification, conservation and sustainable
use of biological diversity and its components”
Article 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity obliges Parties to
“adopt economically and socially sound measures that act as incentives for
the conservation and sustainable use of components of biological diversity”
Article 19 (1) (e) of the United Nations Convention on Desertification
obliges parties to promote capacity building “by adapting, where necessary, relevant environmentally sound technology and traditional methods of
agriculture and pastoralism to modern socio-economic conditions”.
Strategic Priority 6 of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources requests governments to “Support indigenous and local livestock
systems of importance to animal genetic resources, including through the removal of factors contributing to genetic erosion. Support may include the provision of veterinary and extension services, delivery of microcredit for women
in rural areas, appropriate access to natural resources and to the market,
resolving land tenure issues, the recognition of cultural practices and values,
and adding value to their specialist products.”
4. The Samburu shall have the right to participate in the identification
of research needs and research design with respect to our genetic resources, as is mandated by the principle of Prior Informed Consent.
This right is supported by:
Article 8 (j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (see above)
and Article 10 (d) which says Parties shall “support local populations
to develop and implement remedial action in degraded areas where biological diversity has been reduced”.
Chapter 15(4) (g) of Agenda 21 require states to “Recognize and
foster the traditional methods and the knowledge of indigenous people
and their communities …and ensure the opportunity for the participation of those groups in the economic and commercial benefits derived
from the use of such traditional methods and knowledge”.
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