Traditional knowledge

Traditional knowledge

Traditional knowledge

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

Traditional forest related knowledge

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.

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.

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

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.

The Forum should appeal for increased resources to enhance the activities and programmes of relevant international agencies related to indigenous traditional knowledge and for inter agency cooperation on indigenous traditional knowledge, including the development of joint indigenous traditional knowledge projects, especially local or community projects.

(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.

It further includes the knowledge that is the result of intellectual activity and insight in a traditional context, and includes the know how, skills, innovations, practices and learning that form part of traditional knowledge systems, as well as knowledge that is embodied in the traditional lifestyle of an indigenous people, or is contained in codified knowledge systems passed between generations.

An indigenous expert from the Russian Federation expressed concerns about the lack of indigenous traditional knowledge in current education curricula, and suggested a need for guidelines for Member States on the protection and promotion of indigenous traditional knowledge in education, including traditional pedagogies.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 .

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

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

(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.

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

In order to promote a collaborative and complementary approach to indigenous traditional knowledge, to promote increased participation of indigenous representatives at traditional knowledge related meetings of the United Nations system, an enhanced understanding of indigenous issues and their possible solution regarding traditional knowledge, the Forum recommends convening a United Nations inter agency expert group meeting, with the participation of indigenous experts.

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 World Intellectual Property Organization has an ongoing programme addressing traditional knowledge and genetic resources.

(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.