Contents
Executive Summary........................................................................................................................................... vii
1.
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................. 1
2.
Asociación ANDES and the Potato Park...................................................................................................... 2
2.1
Asociación ANDES.................................................................................................................................. 2
2.2
The Potato Park...................................................................................................................................... 2
2.3
Developing an Indigenous Biocultural Territory: Activities in the Potato Park............................................. 4
3.
Biocultural Systems................................................................................................................................... 5
3.1
The challenges to biocultural systems and the development of biocultural protocols..................................5
4.
The Potato Park Inter-Community Agreement for Benefit Sharing............................................................... 7
4.1
Methodological approach for developing the agreement...........................................................................7
4.2
Why translate an agreement rooted in oral tradition into a written document?........................................... 8
4.3
Community leadership in development and negotiation of the agreement................................................. 8
4.4
The Agreement’s foundation in customary norms and principles............................................................... 9
4.5
The Parties and implementing institutions.............................................................................................. 10
4.6
Benefit sharing...................................................................................................................................... 10
4.7
Conflict resolution mechanisms............................................................................................................. 11
4.8
Harmony with national and international laws........................................................................................ 12
5.
The policy context for developing the Inter-Community Agreement: Key elements and shortcomings .......13
5.1
International Policy – FAO, CBD, WIPO.................................................................................................... 13
5.2
The Peruvian Policy Context................................................................................................................... 15
5.3
Shortcomings in existing access and benefit sharing models................................................................... 16
6.
Conclusions............................................................................................................................................. 18
References......................................................................................................................................................... 20
Community Biocultural Protocols
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