Prior informed consent and benefit sharing
Learning lessons from the San-Hoodia case.
Prior informed consent and benefit sharingParticipants at the Molopo Lodge workshop, South Africa, September 2006 Click here to be directed to the UCLAN site.
The results will represent a unique
and comprehensive analysis of decision-making in benefit sharing and
will feed directly into the international debate. In addition, the
project will link with the policy-making communities of the countries
involved, who are currently devising national policies and laws on
access to genetic resources, the protection of traditional knowledge,
and benefit sharing. The main output of the project will be a book, to
be published by Springer-Verlag (Berlin) in 2008.
Key objectives The aims of the project are:
Project Publications and Reports
Williams, S.
and Wynberg, R. 2006. Summary proceedings for Workshop on Prior
Informed Consent and Benefit Sharing, Kalk Bay, South Africa, 1-2 June
2006.
Williams, S. and Wynberg, R. 2006. Proceedings of the San-!Khoba Benefit-Sharing Workshop. Molopo Lodge, South Africa, 20-21 September 2006 Wynberg, R., Schroeder, D. and Chennells, R. (editors). Forthcoming 2009. Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit-sharing. Learning from the San-Hoodia Case. Springer, Berlin Wynberg, R. and Chennells, R. Forthcoming 2009. Green diamonds of the South. A review of the San-Hoodia case. In: Wynberg, R., Chennells, R., and Schroeder, D. (editors). Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit-sharing. Learning from the San-Hoodia Case. Springer, Berlin Wynberg, R., Schroeder, D., Williams, S. and Vermeylen, S. Forthcoming 2009. Sharing benefits fairly: Decision-making and governance. In: Wynberg, R., Chennells, R., and Schroeder, D. (editors). Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit-sharing. Learning from the San-Hoodia Case. Springer, Berlin. Wynberg, R. and Laird, S. Forthcoming 2009. Bioprospecting, Access and Benefit-Sharing: Revisiting the “Grand Bargain”. In: Wynberg, R., Chennells, R., and Schroeder, D. (editors). Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit-sharing. Learning from the San-Hoodia Case. Springer, Berlin Wynberg, R. Forthcoming 2009. Policies for sharing benefits from Hoodia. In: Wynberg, R., Chennells, R., and Schroeder, D. (editors). Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit-sharing. Learning from the San-Hoodia Case. Springer, Berlin. Wynberg, R. 2007. Learning from the San-Hoodia case. Presentation to ABS workshop on the Certificate of Origin/Source/Legal Provenance, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 2007. Nott, K. and Wynberg, R. 2008. Indigenous natural products in Namibia. A contribution towards the strategic environmental assessment for implementation of the MCC Compact Agreement between the US and Namibia. Media EEU expertise for touchstone project Other Relevant Resources Wynberg, R. 2004. Rhetoric, realism and benefit-sharing—use of traditional knowledge of Hoodia species in the development of an appetite suppressant, World Journal of Intellectual Property 6(7): 851-876. San!Xhoba Benefit Sharing Workshop: To develop ground rules for the distribution of benefits. Molopo Lodge, 20-21 September 2006 (English) San!Xhoba Benefit Sharing Workshop: To develop ground rules for the distribution of benefits. Molopo Lodge, 20-21 September 2006 (Afrikaans) External advisors and partners
Professor Fatima Alvarez-Castillo, University of the Philippines,
Manila, the Philippines
Dr Sachin Chaturvedi, Research and Information System for the Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries, India Dr Dafna Feinholz, National Human Genome Commission, Mexico City, Mexico Dr Pamela Andanda, Law School, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr Marie-Charlotte Bouesseau, World Health Organisation, Geneva. Jack Beetson, Aboriginal Philosopher, Australia. Ms Carolina Lasen-Diaz, Environmental Law Specialist, Strassbourg. Professor Thomas Pogge, University of Columbia, US. |
Project TeamThe grant holder for the project is
Professor Doris Schroeder, the leading European expert on ethics &
benefit sharing and Head of the Centre for Professional Ethics at the
University of Central Lancashire. The South African team is headed by
Roger Chennells, the South African barrister who negotiated the
benefit-sharing deal on behalf of the San, and Dr Rachel Wynberg of the
EEU, a leading expert on access and benefit-sharing and the Hoodia
case. Advisors to the project come from Mexico, India, the Philippines,
Australia (Ngemba people), the U.S., Kenya, and Spain.
EEU Researchers: Rachel Wynberg Samantha Williams Other team members: Professor Doris Schroeder, UCLAN link Roger Chennells, South Africa Dr. Miltos Ladikas, UCLAN Julie Cook Lucas, UCLAN Saskia Vermeylen, UCLAN FunderWellcome Trust Timeframe2006 - 2008 Photo Library |