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Cost of conservation of agrobiodiversity
(2010-01-16)
The cost of conservation of germplasm stored in gene banks i.e., ex-situ collections has been studied in other parts of the world to estimate direct and indirect contributions by various actors involved in conservation. ...
Empowering conservators of biodiversity and associated knowledge systems: an intellectual property based framework
(2010-01-16)
Biotechnological and other value adding options provide an opportunity for valorising the biodiversity and associated knowledge systems. In the absence of this value addition, the erosion of biodiversity as well as traditional ...
Is the just systems also fairer? traversing the domain of knowledge, institutions, culture and ethics
(2010-07-20)
In this case he deals with the issue of Prior Informed Consent and the ethics underlying the knowledge exchange between formal and informal system. The criteria for assessing the adverse consequence from knowledge providers ...
A quest for social justice: a colloquium to build a network
(2010-09-07)
The goal of social justice can sometimes be seen as making a lion’s den, a happy
zoo. It can also be seen as balancing the competing claims for common spaces,
be it in economic, social or cultural domains. But the most ...
Empowerment for sustainable development: building upon local creativity and entrepreneurship in Vulnerable environments
(2010-04-17)
A transition towards sustainable development requires recognition of the fundamental contradiction between the strategies which build upon what people do not know or have and the ones which take people s knowledge systems ...
Farmers innovations for sustainable resources management and conservation of biological diversity
(2010-03-28)
The agricultural transformation during green revolution is no more green in most developing countries. The declining productivity of inputs clearly points to the non-sustainable nature of current growth processes. While ...
Harnessing wisdom for managing watersheds: honey bee perspective on innovations, institutions and policies for marginal environments
(2010-07-22)
Participatory approaches for watershed management are now considered essential for sustainable natural resources
management and yet there is very little opportunity for intellectual participation by the people. This ...
Women and formal and informal science
(2010-07-26)
In this paper, we compare our insights from the formal scientific sector with our investigations in informal scientific sector. The effort to blend excellence in formal and informal scientific sectors would require overcoming ...
Building upon grassroots innovations: articulating social and ethical capital
(2010-01-18)
The healthy growth of democracy depends upon the emergence of decentralized, dispersed, polycentric spurs of social, ecological and economic entrepreneurship. Networking among these seemingly disparate cross currents some ...
Water wisdom and wars farming matters
(2010-09-07)
Alongside the large-scale floods that fill the news these days, millions of hectares and people around the world are being affected by drought, with large areas suffering from serve brought and fires the current tenor of ...