Biodiversity and Conservation

Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge

News: Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge: Key findings, recommendations and case studies, 2005-09 Project Folder: Now available

Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction

Community-based initiatives for biodiversity and poverty reduction, where biodiversity is sustainably managed by communities for nutrition, health, cultural and other needs, receive little official support and recognition. Their wider adoption is often hampered by unsupportive policy environments.

Sustaining local food systems, agricultural biodiversity and livelihoods

Update: Read the Open Letter of the Peoples of Cusco (PDF) to the FAO Director General, Feb. 10.

On 26 February 2010, Peruvian indigenous organizations, local government bodies and civil society organizations in Cusco, Peru, held a meeting to formulate a strategic response to a FAO ABCD10 starting on 1 March that will push for greater use of genetically modified organisms. A demonstration through the ancient Inca streets followed up this multi-stakeholder gathering. The meeting produced a Declaration which underlines that the FAO agenda does not represent the best approach for tackling agricultural challenges, including those brought by climate change.

Linking biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: what, why and how?

Date
Wednesday, 28 April, 2010 - Thursday, 29 April, 2010
Location
Zoological Society of London

Linking biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: what, why and how?

2010 International Year of Biodiversity

The United Nations has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity. It’s a key reminder of how fundamental biodiversity is to the health of planetary systems as well as human prosperity and wellbeing — and a chance for all of us to learn more.

Biodiversity events calendar

Calendar of biodiversity events for 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity. We will be updating and added new events as the year progresses.

Protect and survive: customary safeguards, traditional knowledge

In thousands of rural communities from Bolivia to Bangladesh, traditional knowledge makes up the living core of culture. Bound up with local livelihoods and biodiversity, it forms a holistic system precisely tailored to local needs and environmental capacity. Its evolution over time and through shifting conditions ensures traditional practices are robust and adaptable to climate change.

Seed industry and UN agency ignore traditional ways to protect biodiversity and knowledge

Communities worldwide risk losing control over their traditional knowledge and biological resources because a UN agency (the World Intellectual Property Organisation -WIPO) and the global seed industry insist on using Western intellectual property standards for managing access to them.

CBD Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing

Date
Monday, 9 November, 2009 - Sunday, 15 November, 2009

Governments to negotiate an International Regime on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing, Montreal, 9-13 November

 

Farmers and scientists from Ethiopia and Peru demand indigenous approach to conservation

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 01/10/2009 - 15:42

Farmers and scientists from Ethiopia and Peru urges policymakers to establish indigenous bio-cultural territories as areas for conserving agricultural biodiversity.

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