Panama seminar - Programme

PRESENTATIONS and ABSTRACTS

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Below you find presentations from the seminar in pdf or Powerpoint format. Some of the presentations were available before the seminar, while others are being added during and following the meeting.

Several presentations from the seminar were also given at the IPBES Side Event held immediately after the dialogue seminar. Click here for information about the side event and links to these presentations.

Session I: Biological and Cultural Diversity and Diverse Knowledge Systems

Diverse knowledge systems, what does it mean?
Yvonne Vizina, Métis National Council, Canada

Knowledge-based approaches to complex social-ecological systems
Douglas Nakashima, UNESCO

Session II: Experiences of exchange between knowledge systems regarding ecosystem assessment, management, ecosystem functions, and ecosystem services

Cultural Mapping, GIS technologies and Ecosystem Assessments/Land Use Change'
Jorge Andreve, FPCI, Panama

Bridging Knowledge Systems and Scales: Quechua Biocultural Heritage in the Potato Park
Alejandro Argumedo, Asociación Andes, Peru

Knowledge, Spirituality and Community Resilience
Gathuru Mburu, African Biodiversity Network, Kenya

Session III: Experiences of knowledge validation from diverse knowledge systems and barriers and bridges for adaptation and exchange.

Development of Indicators of Knowledge and Sustainable practices – a two way validation system
Joji Carino, Tebtebba Foundation; Philippines

Development of an alternative set of criteria for validation of traditional and local knowledge. Example from on farm conservation of native cultivated plants and their wild relatives.
Magdalena Machaca Mendieta, Asociación Bartolomé Aripaylla /PRATEC, Peru

Knowledge exchange in ecosystem assessments -‐ previous experiences and looking ahead for IPBES
Maria Tengö, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden

Session IV: Documenting, storing, sharing, and controlling access to and benefits from knowledge and information from different knowledge systems, including access to and benefits from scientific knowledge by Indigenous Peoples and Local communities.

Traditional and local knowledge that can be shared and knowledge that are strictly “no-go‐areas”
Preston Hardison, Tulalip Tribe, USA

Participatory plantbreeding – farmers and scientist ́s validation systems for crop diversity and varieties. Ways of controlling access and sharing of benefits
Regassa Feyassa EOSA, Ethiopia

Classification, documentation and database of traditional knowledge in China.
Xue Dayuan, College of Life and Environmental Science, Central University for Nationalities, China

Ways of ensuring mutual respect and benefits in exchange between knowledge systems
Myrle Ballard, Native Women's Association of Canada

Session V: Promoting Diversity of Knowledge as an Underlying Principle and Cross-cutting approach in ecosystem assessments and the work of Intergovernmental science-policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

What is the value and expected outcome of an ecosystem assessment? – experiences from local Climate Assessment and IAASTD
Tirso Gonzales, University of British Columbia, Peru / Canada

IPBES, how is it expected to work? State of the art. Including principled approaches to understanding and using knowledge, and how local and indigenous knowledge have been dealt with so far under IPBES.
Salvatore Arico, UNESCO

Ideas on where and how diverse knowledge systems could be integrated in IPBES
Torbjörn Ebenhard, Swedish Biodiversity Centre

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) – Net
Terence Hay-Edie,GEF Small Grants Programme (implemented by UNDP)

Concluding Session: Way forward

Other presentations

Possibilities for using traditional and local knowledge in assessments.
Marie Kvarnström, NAPTEK.

Dialogue Seminars

Dialogue Workshop on Knowledge Systems, Panama 10-13 April 2012

PRESENTATIONS and ABSTRACTS