Online event on Indigenous people, local communities and traditional knowledge.
Date: 24 November 2020
Time: 3-5.30 PM
Program and presentations
15.00-15.10-Opening
Ms. Florence Tartanac and Mr. Wend Wendland, Director, Traditional Knowledge Division, Global Issues Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
15.10-15.30-GIs and indigenous people, key issues:
–Using GIs to protect promote and preserve TK and TCEs, Ms. Alexandra Grazioli, Director, Lisbon Registry, and Ms. Daphné Zografos Johnsson, Senior Legal Officer, Traditional Knowledge Division, WIPO
–GI strategies for Indigenous Peoples, Ms. Gennifer Meldrum, Ms. Anne Brunel, Bioversity/FAO
15.30-16.00-Cases from over the world:
–Empowering tradition bearers with GI: Examples from India, Ms. Ananya Bhattacharya, Director, Banglanatak dot com
–Argan oil from Morocco, Ms. Fatima Amehri, president of the Argan oil association AMIGHA
–Handicrafts in Colombia, Mr. Alexander Parra Peña, Artesanía de Colombia, Subgerencia Desarrollo y Fortalecimiento del Sector Artesanal
16.00-17.00- Discussions
17:00-17.30-Wrap up and conclusion
Mr. Yon Fernández-de-Larrinoa, Chief of the FAO Indigenous peoples Unit
