Botswana to develop policy to protect traditional knowledge

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Botswana is developing a policy to protect, preserve and promote its indigenous knowledge and mainstream it into the country's macro-economic framework. Development of the policy will involve identifying, documenting and gathering local traditional knowledge practices from areas including agriculture, health, culture and religious beliefs, and then feeding them into a legislative framework. The project, which started in February but was formally launched in June, has received nearly US$1 million from the government...."

Link:

http://www.scidev.net/en/health/traditional-medicine/news/botswana-to-develop-policy-to-protect-traditional-knowledge.html

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Tags:

ru.no oa.medicine oa.new oa.legislation oa.africa oa.tk oa.botswana oa.south

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:43

Date published:

09/13/2011, 17:09