Traditional knowledge

They should also produce traditional knowledge centred curricula for integrating traditional knowledge in mainstream education.

Commercialization of indigenous traditional knowledge

Traditional knowledge There is a clear lack of connection between traditional knowledge and scientific understanding of the same phenomena.

Traditional knowledge health and language perspectives

(c) Traditional knowledge should be considered.

Access to traditional knowledge is limited, and unless these issues are addressed urgently and immediately, much traditional knowledge will be lost.

Agencies, especially UNESCO and UNICEF, and Governments should cooperate to promote the intergenerational transmission of indigenous traditional knowledge and traditional knowledge based education.

A presentation on intellectual property and traditional knowledge by WIPO considered different objectives for the use of, and forms of protection for, traditional knowledge.

IFAD also assists communities in (a) documenting, enhancing and protecting their indigenous traditional knowledge (b) revitalizing indigenous traditional knowledge systems and, where needed, blending them with modern technologies and (c) strengthening traditional knowledge for enhancing the livelihoods of indigenous peoples.

The Committee had contributed to a greater understanding of the need for recognition and protection of traditional knowledge and the cultural expressions of traditional knowledge.

The LINKS project also reinforces the intergenerational transmission of indigenous traditional knowledge, including through the development of pedagogical materials and methods based on traditional knowledge.

Traditional knowledge will also be utilized for this purpose.

(b) Traditional knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

Report of the International Technical Workshop on Indigenous Traditional Knowledge

Indigenous communities are also involved in developing indigenous traditional knowledge policies.

Indigenous traditional knowledge is an essential part of indigenous health systems.

The programme objective is to teach traditional Sami cultural values and knowledge.

The Convention encourages parties to implement national legislation to protect traditional knowledge.

Reluctance by some young people to learn and maintain indigenous traditional knowledge

Indigenous organizations emphasized the sacred nature of traditional knowledge and its important contribution to the knowledge of humankind, especially in certain areas of the world, where parts of the population depended on traditional knowledge for medical needs and food supply.

Countries provide details of inventories that record traditional knowledge, adding that much (potentially very beneficial) knowledge is still being captured.

The sciences and technology, including the role of traditional and local knowledge systems.

Principal theme Indigenous peoples and the international and domestic protection of traditional knowledge

Principal theme Indigenous peoples and the international and domestic protection of traditional knowledge

Session II overview of current policies, methodologies, programmes and activities relating to traditional knowledge and indigenous peoples by United Nations organizations and agencies a matrix for a coherent and coordinated framework on traditional knowledge.

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(f) Indicators concerning civil society, local community participation and traditional knowledge should be included.

Further invites Parties to foster integration of traditional and modern knowledge in combating desertification.

She further referred to the document prepared by the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Traditional Knowledge, which said that the benefits of traditional knowledge should be shared equally with the indigenous communities concerned .

Fishing has been key for him to gain traditional knowledge and learn the Saami language.

(c) Enabling the Forum to develop strategies to fill gaps in indigenous traditional knowledge policies.

Encourages Parties to develop initiatives on traditional knowledge in collaboration with other institutions and organizations

Invites Parties to protect, promote and use traditional knowledge, involving local experts and local communities

Acknowledging the value of traditional knowledge, the LEG developed a database of local coping strategies.

United Nations agencies dealing with the subject of indigenous traditional knowledge should increase their level of coordination with a view to developing common principles, concepts, policies and programmes on indigenous traditional knowledge, in accordance with their respective mandates.

The Permanent Forum should commission a study or studies on customary laws pertaining to indigenous traditional knowledge in order to investigate to what extent such customary laws should be reflected in international and national standards addressing indigenous traditional knowledge.

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An indigenous expert from Papua New Guinea argued that culture and indigenous traditional knowledge were heritage.

Universities and the academic community should support indigenous research and the promotion of indigenous traditional knowledge.

1. Encourages Parties to develop means for exchange of information develop inventories and to cooperate in the development of a network of national experts on traditional knowledge with the objective of safeguarding the traditional knowledge heritage and communities' property rights

On the other hand, when speaking of traditional knowledge, the protection granted was mostly from external factors.

(b) Adequate attention will be given to interventions which are based on the refinement of traditional knowledge.

Lack of coherent and informed national governmental policies towards indigenous peoples, and indigenous traditional knowledge in particular

This is key because of the often total ignorance of indigenous traditional knowledge within non indigenous communities.