Cross-cutting Themes
Laws, rights, and obligations cannot be understood in isolation. Take, for example, a village bordered by a forest on one side and a protected area on the other; community members hunt, fish from a nearby river, farm rice, and keep various livestock. They will find that their lives are contingent on a number of laws that dissect their interrelated understanding of their territories, natural resources, and local production systems. Thus, Natural Justice works on a number of cross-cutting themes that together constitute the core of our approach to supporting communities, advising government agencies, and working at the international level. Specifically, we work on common property resources, community conservation, access and benefit sharing, biotrade, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and farmers’ and livestock keepers’ rights.
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Publications
Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources (Agrawal, 2001) |
Towards a People’s History of the Law: Biocultural Jurisprudence and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (Bavikatte and Robinson, 2011) |
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Free, Prior and Informed Consent in REDD+: Principles and Approaches for Policy and Project Development (RECOFTC and GIZ, 2011) |
Realising Farmers’ Rights under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Andersen, 2006) |
Biocultural Community Protocols for Livestock Keepers (LIFE Network, LPP, and LPPS, 2010) |
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Rooibos Robbery: A Story of Bioprospecting in South Africa (Steps Southern Africa, 2012) |
