Kabir Bavikatte and Harry Jonas worked with two communities in India to develop bio-cultural community protocols in mid August. We worked with traditional healers in the Valli region of Rajasthan and with the Malayali Tribes in Tamil Nadu and their support organisations (Jagran Jan Vikas Samiti and the Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions) to set out the natural resource base and bio-cultural foundations of their traditional knowledge. We developed protocols for each group to assist them and their support organisations to secure their rights to access forest resources and to ensure that any use of their knowledge is in accordance with their bio-cultural values.
Bio-cultural Community Protocols in India
25 August 2009
Programme
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