Abstract
People in other countries too noted importance of traditional knowledge in several spheres. By now, country efforts have been systematized into global policy initiatives. As a preparatory to the main text, we introduce traditional knowledge-related activities of some of these global, mostly UN organizations. They have introduced definition and classification, and proposed integration mechanisms that provide frameworks for case analyses. This chapter consists of three sections on (i) recognition, protection, and promotion of traditional knowledge, (ii) norms of knowledge sharing, and (iii) access conditions including intellectual property rights over this kind of knowledge.
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India is the largest recipient of loans from the World Bank . Irrigation sector accounts for a large chunk. Till the year 2000, the Bank had sanctioned financial assistance for just two projects which had some component of traditional knowledge. These were the Drought Prone Areas Project and Karnataka Tank Irrigation Project. Since 2002, the Bank has come to support five State projects on tank irrigation : Karnataka Community-Based Tank Management Project, Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernization and Water-Bodies Restoration and Management Project, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Community-Based Tank Management Projects, and Orissa (Odisha) Community Tank Management Project.
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RAFI was established during the Great Depression by some leading activists like Frank Porter Graham, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others, for fair treatments of sharecroppers including black tenants. The group is now known as ETC Group (action group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration).
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Founded as The Chemical , Industrial and Pharmaceutical Laboratories.
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Sengupta, N. (2019). Global Mechanisms of Protection and Sharing. In: Traditional Knowledge in Modern India. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3922-2_2
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