Traditional Knowledge Bulletin |
- Meeting prep: UNPFII-11
- This week in review … UNESCO and SCBD to host panel on indigenous knowledge at Planet Under Pressure conference
- Meeting prep: IPSI Global Conference
- Funding opportunity: Endangered Language Fund request for proposals
- This week in review … WIPO news of relevance to TK
- This week in review … Argentina translates ABS Protocol in indigenous languages
- This week in review … Indigenous peoples at forefront of climate change offer lessons on plant biodiversity
- Resource: UNESCO dossier on biological and cultural diversities in the Andaman Islands
Posted: 07 Mar 2012 03:12 AM PST UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 11th session The pre-registration to the 11th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII-11) is now open. Indigenous peoples' organizations that have attended previous sessions need to pre-register online by 23 April 2012, while new organizations need to pre-register by 9 April 2012. The special theme of the session will be "The Doctrine of Discovery: its enduring impact on indigenous peoples and the right to redress for past conquests (articles 28 and 37 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)". The agenda also includes a half-day discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples to food and food sovereignty; a half-day discussion on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, scheduled for 2014; and a half-day discussion on Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia. Visit the meeting's website … Access the online pre-registration system … |
This week in review … UNESCO and SCBD to host panel on indigenous knowledge at Planet Under Pressure conference Posted: 07 Mar 2012 03:11 AM PST Supporting indigenous knowledge at the Planet Under Pressure international scientific conference PARIS, FRANCE: Recognizing that climate change adaptation must be rooted in local priorities, UNESCO and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) co-convene a panel on "Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Futures" at the international science conference Planet Under Pressure, to be held from 26-29 March 2012, in London, UK. Within the framework of their joint project Climate Frontlines, the panel brings together indigenous experts and researchers to discuss the contributions of community-based knowledge in assessing environmental change, adapting livelihoods and shaping national goals and global priorities, with case studies from the Sahel, the South Pacific, North America and the Himalayas. Read the release … Read the session's programme … |
Meeting prep: IPSI Global Conference Posted: 07 Mar 2012 03:10 AM PST Second Global Conference of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative The theme of the Second IPSI Global Conference is "Strategy for Realizing Societies in Harmony with Nature". The conference will consist of a closed Assembly for IPSI members and a Public Forum. The conference, which will be conducted in English, is expected to include remarks or speeches by Dr. Tony Simons (Director-General of ICRAF), Amb. Toshihisa Takata (Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Kenya) and Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Vice Rector, United Nations University). Experts representing IPSI member organizations will break into three Working Group sessions to share their experience and discuss the way forward: capturing and promoting resilience in socioecological production landscapes including disaster risk management; sharing experiences of restoring socioecological production landscapes; and revitalizing local communities through enhancing traditional knowledge and empowering young successors. The Satoyama Initiative was jointly initiated by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan, and the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). Its international partnership (IPSI) comprises organizations committed to supporting socioecological production landscapes for the benefit of biodiversity and human well-being. Read a press release on the conference by UNU-IAS … More information on the conference … |
Funding opportunity: Endangered Language Fund request for proposals Posted: 07 Mar 2012 03:04 AM PST The Endangered Language Fund: Request for Proposals 2012 The Endangered Language Fund provides grants for language maintenance and linguistic field work. The work most likely to be funded is that which serves both the native community and the field of linguistics. Researchers and language activists from any country are eligible to apply. The language involved must be in danger of disappearing within a generation or two. Grants are normally for a one year period, though extensions may be applied for. Grants are expected to be less than US$4,000 in size, and to average about US$2,000. The deadline for applications is 20 April 2012. Read the release, including more information and instructions on how to apply … |
This week in review … WIPO news of relevance to TK Posted: 07 Mar 2012 03:02 AM PST Decisions of the Twentieth Session of the WIPO IGC GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Decisions adopted by the twentieth session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO IGC-20), held from 14-22 February 2012, are available online. Access the decisions … Voluntary Fund for Accredited ILCs Document WIPO/GRTKF/IC/20/INF/7 regarding recommendations of the Advisory Board of the WIPO Voluntary Fund for Accredited Indigenous and Local Communities, has been issued. The Annex to this document lists the applicants who have been recommended for funding in view of the next session of the IGC, to be held from 16-20 April 2012. Access the document … Applications for funding from the WIPO Voluntary Fund for Accredited ILCs Applications for funding, in view of IGC 23, must be submitted to the WIPO Secretariat by 9 May 2012. Only already accredited observers, which are representatives of local or indigenous communities, may apply for this funding. The exact dates of IGC 23 will be communicated to participants after the 2012 WIPO General Assembly in October 2012. More information … Applications for Accreditation to the IGC as ad hoc observer Applications for accreditation at IGC 22, which will be held from 9-13 July 2012, must be submitted to the WIPO Secretariat by 9 May 2012. More information … WIPO Indigenous Intellectual Property Law Fellow Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, a Kankana-ey Igorot from the Mountain Province in the Cordillera Region of the Philippines, has been selected as the WIPO Indigenous Intellectual Property Law Fellow for 2012. More information … |
This week in review … Argentina translates ABS Protocol in indigenous languages Posted: 07 Mar 2012 02:57 AM PST Argentina traduce texto de Nagoya a idiomas originarios BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: Argentinean officials met with indigenous communities' representatives to start building awareness about the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing (ABS), as an initial step towards developing a joint plan supported by both the government and indigenous peoples aiming to protect the country's biodiversity. The Protocol was translated into four indigenous languages, Qom, Wichí, Mapuche and Ava Guaraní, while translation into the remaining twelve indigenous languages will follow. Read the article [in Spanish] … |
This week in review … Indigenous peoples at forefront of climate change offer lessons on plant biodiversity Posted: 07 Mar 2012 02:56 AM PST Indigenous peoples at forefront of climate change offer lessons on plant biodiversity MISSOURI, US: The Yanesha of the upper Peruvian Amazon and the Tibetans of the Himalayas are two groups of indigenous peoples carrying on traditional ways of life, even in the face of rapid environmental changes. Over the last 40 years, Dr. Jan Salick, senior curator and ethnobotanist with the William L. Brown Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden, has worked with these two cultures. She explains how their traditional knowledge and practices hold the key to conserving, managing and even creating new biodiversity in a paper released in the new text, "Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability," published by Cambridge University Press. The Yanesha and Tibetans are dramatically different peoples living in radically dissimilar environments, but both cultures utilize and highly value plant biodiversity for their food, shelters, clothing and medicines. Read the article … |
Resource: UNESCO dossier on biological and cultural diversities in the Andaman Islands Posted: 07 Mar 2012 02:53 AM PST The Jarawa Tribal Reserve Dossier: Cultural & Biological Diversities in the Andaman Islands In this dossier, the focus is on the Jarawa of the Andaman Islands, who represent a small but extremely important group. Their locale has had a history of many centuries, which has intersected with the colonial presence, independent India, other indigenous groups and much else. Fundamental is the incomparable richness of the diversity of their lands and waters that surround the islands. The articles in this volume present details of the richness of the area, the diversity and the importance of the flora, fauna and aquatic life. Some of these articles should be eye-openers for those who are conscious of the threat to many of these species. This discourse is educative in recognizing that the Jarawa and their livelihoods are commensurable with high biological diversity and ecological balances. A recent change in Jarawa relations with the outside world now threatens the integrity of the reserve. The Jarawa have decided to end their voluntary isolation and to mix more freely with outsiders. This has enormous implications for both the biodiversity of the reserve and the Jarawa themselves. It thus becomes crucially important to understand the complex interactions between the Jarawa, their environment, and the increasingly intrusive cultures surrounding the reserve. Only through an interdisciplinary approach can such linkages be understood, and perhaps to some extent managed. Download the book [pdf] … |
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