Indigenous Peoples and Globalisation of Genomics in Amazonia - Flagship Project

• Indigenous Peoples Home
• The Research Team
• Aims and Objectives
• Research Approaches/Methods
• Broader Significance
• Project Outputs
• Contact

Broader Significance

Conceptual

• Participatory ethnographic analysis of indigenous peoples perspectives on human nature relatedness and values
• Participatory ethnographic analysis of indigenous peoples experiences with research projects directed towards bioprospecting
• Understanding the dimensions of the emergent bioeconomy across multiple scales and epistemologies and challenges for governance across scales

Methodological

• Multi-locale fieldwork ranging from Amazonian communities to regional and United Nations debates
• Participatory critical accompaniment with indigenous peoples
• Development of international indicators for patent activity in relation to biodiversity and traditional knowledge across a spectrum from medicinal plants to proteomics and bionanotechnology
• Development of methods and a quantitative dataset for international trends in patent activity relating to biodiversity and traditional knowledge

Policy

• Contributing to national and regional level policy analysis in relation to traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources and benefit sharing
• Bringing trends in the biosciences into focus for policy makers under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in relation to their implications for the development of an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing
• Providing research methods and tools for the analysis of patent trends to civil society organisations, the scientific community and governments for biodiversity and traditional knowledge
  

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