This WIPO Traditional Knowledge Documentation Toolkit provides useful practical guidance on how to undertake a TK documentation exercise as a process and how to address critical IP related issues and questions, as they surface during this effort.

This report outlines the study's methodology and findings on the status and trends relating to TK, genetic resources and farming systems. It reviews the existing policy framework for TK protection, and explores responses based on customary laws and the need to go beyond these. Non-legal tools developed for TK protection are presented, along with key conclusions and proposals for ways forward.

This study provides scientific basis for the ethno-botanical knowledge of the local community. The phytochemicals of the plants when developed further, can offer a less-expensive treatment for various ailments.

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

The article highlights progress made to date and provides Indigenous viewpoints on what further steps need to be taken. Key among these steps is the need to restore and maintain Indigenous access to traditional territories and ways of life, and the requirement for mutually respectful collaboration between TK and Western science.

Primitive agriculture like jhuming is widely prevalent in North East India for food production. Besides this, some potential indigenous farming systems are exist like Alder (Alnus nepalensis) based farming system, Zabo farming, Panikheti in hills and pond based farming system in plains of the region developed by local farmers using their ingenuity and skills over the centuries.

The objective of the study was to ascertain the processing methodology adapted by local artisans in Kashmir Valley for shawl preparation. In this paper, the processing of Pashmina from fibre to the final product (shawl) right from harvesting up to finishing is presented in detail.

This study was conducted with Adi women on Namdung plant (Perilla ocymoides). Objectives were to explore food, cultural and ethnomedicinal values of Namdung. Data were collected from 180 rural Adi women from 6 villages of East Siang district and secondary sources also.

The present study pointed out that the community people in Shimoga district have traditional knowledge to treat veterinary ailments. Some of the ethno-formulations have been documented for the first time in India.

This study is about Wild rice [Zizania latifolia (Griseb.) Turcz ex stapf.)], locally called ‘Kambong’ or ‘Ishing-kambong’ (in Manipuri) is an aquatic/wetland plant of Manipur and is used for various purposes by the ethnic people ranging from food to fodder, thatch roofing, firewood substitute, house wall plastering material, etc.