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Lobby for policies and legalisation to address the protection of the
local flora from overexploitation and the issue of intellectual property
rights. |
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Inform healers and other community members on IPR issues. |
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Provide name of informant (or local innovator) for any piece of
information (e.g., a local practice, a method) that is not common
knowledge in community. |
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Help local people to publish the information they provide under their
name. This way it would be possible to pinpoint to specific individuals
or groups as originators if a remedy turns out to be so valuable that
patency issues arise. |
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Compensate local people for their information through:
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Using the information to further village development. |
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Making a donation to improve village infrastructure. |
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Paying informants or village in cash or kind. |
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Return the information on ethnoveterinary medicine so that local people
can access and benefit from it through:
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Storing the information in simple files managed by villagers themselves. |
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Writing reports in simple language and providing copies to the
communities. |
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Preparing slideshows or videos. |
| Developing educational materials. |
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Link with organisations that have experiences in intellectual property
rights. Examples: ICIPE in Nairobi,
RAFI in Canada, and the Honey Bee
group in India. Furthermore, in some countries (e.g., Philippines) there
are NGOs focussing specifically on legal issues relating to indigenous
knowledge, local resources and property rights. |
