Side Event

The International Regime - Addressing Traditional Knowledge and Customary Rights

Organizer
International Institute for Environment and Development

Date and Time
10 November 2009 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Eighth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 8)

IIED will present key findings of research on customary laws and practices for TK protection and ABS conducted with indigenous and local communities in Peru, Panama, India, China and Kenya; and recommendations for the International Regime. ANDES (Peru) will present more detailed findings of their work, focusing on “Biocultural Protocols and Benefit Sharing in the Potato Park”; and the Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy (China) will present their work on "Equitable Benefit-Sharing from Participatory Plant Breeding in SW China". Film clips will also be shown.