Articles

Articles

Natural Justice’s team members have written the following articles for peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and civil society newsletters:

Policy Matters 17 Stewarding the Commons: Rethinking Property and the Emergence of Biocultural Rights

Common Voices Issue 7 (pages 20-25), 2012

Policy Matters 17 Biocultural Community Protocols: Bridging the Gap Between Customary, National and International Law

Effectius Newsletter, Issue 14, 2011

Biocultural Community Protocols for Livestock Keepers Towards a People’s History of the Law: Biocultural Jurisprudence and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing

Law, Environment and Development Journal, Volume 7, Number 1, 2011

Biocultural Community Protocols for Livestock Keepers Hacia Una Historia de la Ley de los Pueblos a Traves de la Jurisprudencia Biocultural y el Protocolo de Nagoya Sobre Acceso y Participacion en los Beneficios

Law, Environment and Development Journal, Volume 7, Number 1, 2011

Implementing a Traditional Knowledge Commons: Opportunities and Challenges Community Protocols and Access and Benefit Sharing

Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, Volume 12, Number 3, 2010

Biocultural Community Protocols and Conservation Pluralism Biocultural Community Protocols and Conservation Pluralism

IUCN-CEESP Policy Matters, Issue 17, 2010

Imagining a Traditional Knowledge Commons Cutting the Gordion Knot: Resolving Conflicts Over the Term “Utilisation”

Bridges Trade BioRes Review, Volume 4, Number 3, 2010

How Bio-cultural Community Protocols Can Empower Local Communities How Bio-cultural Community Protocols Can Empower Local Communities

Endogenous Development Magazine, Issue 6, 2010

Policy Matters 17 A Rights-based Approach to Supporting Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas

CBD-civil society [square brackets] newsletter, Issue 3 (see pg 9), 2010
Biocultural Community Protocols for Livestock Keepers ABS+

ECO, WGABS9 coverage (see pg 6), 2010

Implementing a Traditional Knowledge Commons: Opportunities and Challenges REDD Community Protocols: A Community Approach to Ensuring the Local Integrity of REDD

Stakeholder Forum, Outreach Special Post-COP15 Issue (see pg 7-8), 2010

Imagining a Traditional Knowledge Commons The Bushbuckridge Healers’ Path to Justice

UNESCO, A World of Science (see pg 18-20), 2010

No Narrowing of the Definition of Traditional Knowledge No Narrowing of the Definition of Traditional Knowledge

ECO, WGABS8 coverage (see pg 3), 2009

Policy Matters 17 Towards a Traditional Knowledge Commons

ECO, WGABS8 coverage (see pg 2), 2009

Biocultural Community Protocols for Livestock Keepers Bio-cultural Community Protocols as a Community-based Approach to Ensuring the Local Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy

CBD-civil society [square brackets] newsletter, Issue 2, 2009

Implementing a Traditional Knowledge Commons: Opportunities and Challenges Shifting Sands of ABS Best Practice: Hoodia from the Community Perspective

UNU-IAS, TK Bulletin, 2009

Latest News
  • 19th Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation
    Peter Wood, Natural Justice Associate, attended the 19th Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation, 9-10 February in London. The meeting focussed on the implementation of the EU Timber Regul …

  • MPCA Workshop in Uttarakkand
    Medicinal Plants Conservation Areas (MPCAs) in India are bioculturally rich areas of land with a high prevalence of endemic medicinal plants. MPCAs are usually demarcated by communities or by the gove …

  • Meeting on Increasing Number of BCR Lawyers
    On the 13th of February, Kabir Bavikatte and Harry Jonas (Natural Justice) met with Antara Lahiri (Ashoka Law for All) and Vivek Maru (Namati) to discuss how best to increase the numbers of lawyers fo …

  • Maldhari Community Claims Traditional Lands
    In the face of government attempts to ban livestock in their traditional grasslands, the Maldhari community of the Banni grasslands of Kutch, Gujarat, India sent notices to their state government dema …

  • New Article on Stewarding the Commons
    Natural Justice’s own Kabir Bavikatte recently authored “Stewarding the Commons: Rethinking Property and the Emergence of Biocultural Rights” for the Common Voices newsletter of the Dakshin Foundation …

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