rural actors: A renewal
of farming systems per-
spectives
Farming Systems Asso-
ciation Symposium, Cler-
mont Ferrand, France, 6
10 Jul 2008
centrate on questions re-
lated to the sustainable
development of territories.
Themes include:
ment for rural reor-
ganization
food chain
velopment in rural ar-
eas
ergy production in ag-
riculture, forestry,
aquaculture and
mariculture: potentials
and impact
services; role of new
actors.
submission: 1 Oct 2007
www.8th-european-ifsa-
symposium.org
lands/rangeland con-
gress
Hohhot, China
the 21st International
Grassland Congress and
the 8th International
Rangeland Congress for
in grassland and range-
land management from
around the world. Focus is
on "multifunctional grass-
lands and rangelands in a
changing world", with the
subthemes resources and
ecology, production sys-
tems, and people and
policies.
http://igc-irc2008.org, or
contact secretariat2008
@hotmail.com or secre-
tariat2008@yahoo.com.cn
build a global learning
network to promote local
innovation in ecologically-
oriented agriculture and
natural resource man-
agement.
novation for sustain-
able development
partnerships
and extension agents
in participatory ap-
proaches
cal innovation
logue to favour local
innovation
learning about promot-
ing local innovation
led innovation and ex-
perimentation into re-
search, extension and
education institutions.
in Africa, Asia and Latin
America. Activities include
workshops, training,
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tion, facilitating participa-
tory innovation develop-
ment, action research,
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individuals, innovators,
farmers, scholars, aca-
demics, policy makers,
entrepreneurs and NGOs
from more than 75 coun-
tries interested in indige-
nous knowledge.
18 years ago to collect
knowledge from the hold-
ers, making it a norm to
acknowledge the provider
of the information with
name and reference to
protect their intellectual
property rights. The
source of knowledge the
traditional knowledge
holders and grassroots
innovators must be ac-
knowledged if they wish. A
of any proceeds that ac-
crue from building on this
knowledge must go back
to the knowledge holders.
Honey Bee, a newsletter
appearing in six Indian
languages (Hindi, Guja-
rati, Tamil, Kannada,
Bengali, Malayalam and
Oriya) and English. The
newsletter stories of local
ingenuity with the consent
of the knowledge holder.
Honey Bee also holds a
database of traditional
knowledge and grassroots
innovations. It has docu-
mented more than 51,000
traditional knowledge
items and practices.
www.sristi.org/cms/en/our
_network