In the past decade, indigenous knowledge systems have witnessed a belated renaissance, both in policy instruments of … international organizations and in some international law agreements. In the progressive emancipation of indigenous knowledge …, and intellectual property of indigenous knowledge systems. A particularly contested aspect of this phenomenon has been …

Indigenous people face problems of economic underdevelopment, including in wealthy states such as Australia, Canada …, New Zealand and the United States. The knowledge assets of indigenous people form a potential source of income, but this … potential has largely not been realized because of extractive state property orders. Drawing on fieldwork from Australia, the …

Indigenous intellectual property. The preamble took the view that 'respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional …, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the … manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of …

and local knowledge, and the intellectual property system's failure to adequately recognize Indigenous or non …-western knowledge, while expanding property rights over life forms. Ikechi Mgbeoji fills a need for a specific definition of bio … international law concerning the conservation and use of plants and Indigenous knowledge, and examines the implications of bio …