Convention on Biological Diversity: www.biodiv.org/convention/articles.asp
World Bank Web site on indigenous knowledge: www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/what.htm
The 1991 Act of the Union pour la Protection des
ITPGRFA or International Seed Treaty: www.fao.org/AG/CGRFA/ITPGR.htm
The African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and
Web site for the International Covenant on Social and Cultural
Web site for the Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal
Peoples in Independent Countries (ILO
The Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement: www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/wtowip_e.htm
Additional background papers
GRAIN. 2003. Good ideas turned bad? A glossary of right-related terminology (available at www.grain.org/seedling/seed-04-01-2-en.cfm).
Traditional knowledge and patentability, IISD Trade and Development Brief, No. 7, International Institute for Sustainable Development.
Briggs, J., Roe, A. & Sharp, J. 2002. De-romanticizing indigenous knowledge: challenges from Egypt. In Indigenous environmental knowledge and sustainable development in semi-arid Africa. Briggs, J., Roe, A. & Sharp, J. University of Glasgow. Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Hansen, S., Van Fleet, J./American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2003. Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property: A Handbook on Issues and Options for Traditional Knowledge Holders in Protecting their Intellectual Property and Maintaining Biological Diversity.