Experts from around the world examine an innovative proposal to promote both cultural survival and biological conservation: treating cultural and indigenous kno

"Technological capability has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued e

Currently the focus of a heated debate among indigenous peoples, human rights advocates, crop breeders, pharmaceutical companies, conservationists, social scien

Originally published in 2004. Local knowledge reflects many generations of experience and problem solving by people around the world, increasingly affected by g

Discusses the suitability of mainstream forms of intellectual propety rights to indigenous knowledge and efforts to reconcile the Western concept of intellectua