China:

Participatory Plant Breeding and Farmers' Rights in S.W. China.

Coordinated by:
Yiching Song (yiching2002cn@gmail.com) and
Jingsong Li (maolee2000@yahoo.com.cn)
Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP)

Read:

NEW The role of biodiversity, traditional knowledge and participatory plant breeding in climate change adaptation in Karst mountain areas in SW China. Yiching Song and Jingsong Li (2011).

Use it or Lose it: Protecting the traditional knowledge, genetic resources and customary laws of marginal farmers in SW China. Jingsong Li and Yiching Song (2010).

India:

Protecting Lepcha and Limbus Farmers' Rights in E. Himalayas.

Coordinated by:
Ruchi Pant (ruchi_kumaon04@yahoo.co.in)
Ecoserve, Delhi

Watch video: Heritage on the edge (on IIED site)

A short film exploring the status and threats to Bio-cultural Heritage, and the responses needed.

India: 

Protecting Yanadi Healers' Rights in Andhra Pradesh

Coordinated by:
S. Vedavathy
Herbal and Folklore Research Centre (HFRC)

Read: Displaced and Marginalised: Protecting the traditional knowledge, customary laws and forest rights of Yanadi tribals of Andhra Pradesh. S. Vedavathy (2010).

Watch video: Yanadi Healers (on IIED site) 

Kenya:

Protecting Maasai and Mijikenda Healers’ Rights

Coordinated by:
Doris Mutta (Doris_Mutta@Yahoo.Com)
Kenya Forestry Research Centre, KEFRI) and
Peter Munyi (pmunyi@icipe.org)
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, ICIPE

Watch video: Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge in Kenya  (on IIED site) 

Panama:

Protecting Kuna and Embera Wounaan Medicinal Knowledge

Coordinated by:
Heraclio Herrera (heraclioherrera@hotmail.com)
Fundacion Dobbo Yala

Read: 'Panama Case Study – Kuna and Embera-Wounaan Medicinal Knowledge & Access Protocols' in 'Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge: Implications of customary laws and practices p. 17-18'

Peru:

Andean Customary Laws and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in the Potato Park

Coordinated by:
Alejandro Argumedo (alejandro@andes.org.pe)
Asociacion ANDES

Read:

New Community Biocultural Protocols: Building Mechanisms for Access and Benefit Sharing Among the Communities of the Potato Park Based on Quechua Customary Norms (Detailed Report)

Community Biocultural Protocols: Building Mechanisms for Access and Benefit Sharing Among the Communities of the Potato Park Based on Quechua Customary Norms (Summary Report)

'Peru Case Study – Customary Law in the Potato Park & Protection of Indigenous Names' in 'Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge: Implications of customary laws and practices p. 19 – 20'