The present issue of Yemaya is a Special Issue on GAF8. It carries the gist of the discussions that took place over the three days of the conference in which 79 papers were presented on six thematic areas and which attracted 198 delegates from 26 countries.

This paper derives from research that have been conducting for the last six years in the field of intellectual property (IP) and indigenous/ traditional knowledge protection. In general, the work focuses on the social impacts of law.

This article outlines how pulses could contribute towards agricultural transformation and the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in Africa. A quarter of the African population, most of whom are smallholder farmers deriving their livelihoods from rain fed agriculture, live in hunger and poverty. African governments should, among other measures, take advantage of the 2016 International Year of Pulses (IYP), declared by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to stimulate both domestic consumption and exports of pulses to address this challenge.

While maintaining the importance of preserving the originality of the Indigenous cultural identity and practices, the paper highlights how the infusion of the cultures of the Indigenous people and that of the Indo-Fijians, who have co-existed together for over 100 years, has shaped the unique multicultural landscape in Fiji.

Agro-ecological farming systems are increasingly seen to have the potential to meet the triple challenges of productivity, sustainability and poverty eradication. Food Chain is an international journal for all those involved in developing the supply of high-quality foods from ‘farm gate to plate’ and those who use food processing to alleviate poverty and hunger.

The collective intelligence of Indigenous peoples regarding end-stage organ failure and organ donation and transplantation is central to improving patient experiences, increasing the number of Indigenous organ donors and recipients, and finding pathways for advancing healthcare reforms that prevent and treat end-stage organ failure.

The partnership approach taken also differs from usual top-down mechanistic breeding approaches in that the methods of breeding entailed holistic attention, learning, and respect for what turned out to be corn plants evolving in symbiogenesis with beneficial microbial partners.

Turmeric contains two key components: Curcuminoids and essential oils (primarily terpenoids), responsible for the herb’s orange-yellow color and aromatic flavor. These components also have a broad spectrum of bioactivities for which data has been confirmed at all levels of investigation, including in vitro and in vivo tests and human clinical trials.

This study is a field research report on an investigation into the subject of the indigenous knowledge of time -keeping, as it was of practical importance to the communal organization of agricultural activities in traditional Toba Batak society.

The study aims to  document the indigenous medical knowledge and practice of among Sundanese community. An exploratory study was conducted on the indigenous medical knowledge of Sundanese community living in Pangalengan, West Java. Most of the medicinal plants reported by key informants and used by the respondents in the research area are already publicly acknowledged for their medicinal properties and also reported in other research settings.