Side Event

Protecting Biocultural Heritage

Organizer
International Institute for Environment and Development

Date and Time
23 May 2008 18:15 - 19:45

Meeting
Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 9)

The side event will present the findings of a multi-country action-research project on protection of traditional knowledge and biocultural heritage, being conducted with indigenous and local communities. A video will be shown with clips from the case studies in Peru, India and China. Coorganised by IIED, ANDES (Peru), Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy and Ecoserve (India).