Countries increasingly use access and benefit‐sharing laws as a tool for the conservation
and sustainable use of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge. These …

According to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), biodiversity refers to" the
variability among living organisms from all sources including... terrestrial, marine and other …

This article investigates the contribution of action research to systemic institutional
innovation, through a case study of access and benefit sharing (ABS) mechanisms …

Traditional knowledge, especially traditional Chinese medical knowledge, is a typically
symbolic figure of ancient Chinese civilization and is still a heated topic in the governance of …

This study is about understanding and inducing multi-level institutional change through
participatory plant breeding (PPB) with maize (Zea mays L.) in southwest China. The PPB …

In recent years, traditional medicinal knowledge (TMK) has attracted the attention of
multinational corporations from developed countries, which are interested in the potentially …