On Indigenous People’s Day at COP23, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa joined representatives of indigenous peoples assembled in Bonn, acknowledging their part in being a solution to the problem of climate change.

The video documented the success stories of direct beneficiaries under the project. The documentary shows the diversifying lifestyle of the beneficiaries with the provision of inputs and trainings as a direct positive impact of the project. By learning better techniques of poultry rearing and fruits and vegetable production, the project beneficiaries are now able to pave a better future for their next generation.

This guide aims to help indigenous peoples and local communities better understand the intellectual property system and make informed decisions about when and how to use intellectual property tools to protect and promote their traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions.

Webinar series: how to protect and promote your culture- collective marks and certification marks, March 24, 2021 3:00 PM-4:15 PM

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The main focus of the study is the protection of the traditional knowledge which revolves around the indigenous people. In simple words no indigenous people, no traditional knowledge. The threat on traditional knowledge and its associated forms would increase, if exploitation on the indigenous people is not stopped, unfortunately it is the current scenario of the countries. The predicament is that the indigenous people have been ignored totally or with little provisions which are easily overlooked. Another predicament is that the traditional knowledge already lies in the public domain, is considered to be free and thus the multinationals takes advantage of it, and patent it.

India has played a pivotal role in the decade old efforts of developing countries on the global platform for bringing the protection of traditional knowledge at the centre stage of the International Intellectual Property System. These efforts have resulted inter alia in setting up of an Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) on Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Folklore by WIPO and the Doha Ministerial Declaration of the year 2001 wherein it was decided to establish a relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on the issue of Access to Genetic Resources and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from their utilization. F

Based on a randomized controlled trial, this study assesses the effects of ‘farmer-to-farmer’ extension and a video intervention on adoption of a complex technology package among 2,382 smallholders in Ethiopia.