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The benefits of traditional knowledge

Nature, 2015
A study of two Balkan ethnic groups living in close proximity finds that traditional knowledge about local plant resources helps communities to cope with periods of famine, and can promote the conservation of biodiversity.
Manuel J. Macía, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana   +1 more
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The Dilemma of Traditional Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge

International Community Law Review, 2008
AbstractThis essay deals with the issue of traditional knowledge and critically assesses the relevant provisions of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity. It also analyses “soft law” instrument, the so-called, Akwé: Kon Voluntary Guidelines. The essay illustrates the problems relating to the regulation of indigenous knowledge by examples from ...
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Traditional Knowledge in Horticulture

2019
Traditional knowledge is the experience gained over centuries collectively owned as a tradition. It is mainly of a practical nature, such as agriculture, fisheries, health, horticulture, forestry and environmental management in general. In the recent years, TK is growing and gaining its due appreciation.
K. Souravi, P. E. Rajasekharan
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Traditional Knowledge Reaffirmed

Social Casework, 1972
In the interest of responsible agency service, the skilled caseworker interested in sustained therapy must be given sanction to offer such services
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Traditional Knowledge In Practice

ARCTIC, 1997
Northern organizations, governments, and governments-in-waiting have been formally and informally attempting to incorporate "traditional knowledge" into policy deliberations for some time. A public debate about this practice began in fall 1996, when Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard published criticisms of the Government of the Northwest Territories"
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Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge

2003
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, modern science was spread around the world, first as part of Europe’s imperialist expansion and, later, in the postwar era, as part of the “globalization” strategies of transnational corporations.
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Globalization, Patents, and Traditional Knowledge

Columbia Journal of Asian Law, 2003
Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2003)
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Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2010
Biotechnological inventions are sometimes based upon the traditional knowledge of indigenous communities about the beneficial properties of plants and animals. Some institutions have adopted the uniqueness of traditional knowledge approach, which maintains that the indigenous communities have sui generis rights to a share of the profits from these ...
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The Traditional Account of Knowledge

2016
This chapter introduces the traditional account of knowledge. First, three main kinds of knowledge are distinguished: acquaintance knowledge, knowledge-how, and propositional knowledge. The nature of each of these kinds of knowledge and their differences from one another are illuminated.
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Knowledge Traditions and Change

2011
The future for local knowledge traditions is, I believe, dependent on the creation of a third space, an interstitial space, in which local knowledge traditions can be reframed, decentred and the social organisation of trust can be negotiated… Knowledge…will tend towards universal homogenous information at the expense of local knowledge traditions.
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