Intellectual Property

Publications

Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge (Agrawal, 1995)
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Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (Posey and Dutfield, 1996)
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Between the Sacred and the Secular: Indigenous Intellectual Property, International Markets and the Modern African State (Ostergard et al., 2006)
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Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Peoples (WIPO and LIENIP, 2009)
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Triggering the Synergies between Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity (GTZ, 2010)
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Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (Krikorian and Kapczynski (Eds.), 2010)
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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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