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Indigenous traditional knowledges
Article 8 (j) of the CBD
Subject to its national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of such knowledge, innovations and practices
Research on indigenous traditional knowledge by Belgian research institutions
Universities
- Free University of Brussels (ULB)
Centre for Cultural Anthropology
member of the European project 'the Future of Tropical Rainforest People' (EC DG VIII)- Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Centre for Social and Cultural Anthropology- Universitary Faculty of Agronomical Sciences
Unit of Sylviculture
member of the European project 'the Future of Tropical Rainforest People' (EC DG VIII)Federal Scientific Institutes
- Royal Museum for Central Africa
Website under construction, available soonto be completed ...
Actions of Belgian and international NGO
to be completed ...
Links
- Belgian non-governmental organisations
- Biotrade - An Integrated Approach Towards Trade, Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development.
- CBD Clearing-House Mechanisms Article 8j page
- Cocosnet - Collective Catalogues of the Flemish NGOs for Development Aid
- INKA - FCSF Two NGOs preserving biodiversity and of traditional cultures
- The Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network
- Ngonet - Interesting Flemish NGOs links, in dutch only
- Sectoral Clearing-Houses
- World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development
- World Intellectual Property Organization
to be completed ...
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