12/12/2024
"In the framework of the Nagoya protocol, we are concerned about the way Biological Digital Sequences Information (DSI) management policies, which will be discussed at the COP16 in Cali these two weeks, will alter the eventuality of keeping track of Indigenous People and Local Communities’ intellectual property rights on knowledge associated with biodiversity. After several online meetings, a session of intense brainstorming at the ISE 2024 meeting in Marrakesh, and several rounds of writing and editing, we finally ended up with the following policy brief to be spread during Cali’s COP16.
As ethnobiologists, we strongly support Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ claim for more control over their intellectual property rights, and in order to turn this wish into a reality, we call for creating a network of Local Knowledge databases established in strong collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to help protect their knowledge related to biodiversity and ultimately to assure fair access and benefit sharing. It might not be the only solution, and although difficult, it is probably one of the most efficient to do so."
You are warmly invited to sign the call here: https://forms.gle/DtvYstMR5nfgVksP8
- Guillaume Odonne, Irene Teixidor-Toneu, Natalia Hanazaki
