Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing

I. Community Consent and Benefit Sharing: The Context

1. Introduction
Rachel Wynberg, Doris Schroeder, Roger Chennells

2. Justice and Benefit Sharing
Doris Schroeder

3. Informed Consent: From Medical Research to Traditional Knowledge
Doris Schroeder

4. Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Can Prior Informed Consent Help?
Graham Dutfield

5. Bioprospecting, Access and Benefit Sharing: Revisiting the ‘Grand Bargain’
Rachel Wynberg, Sarah Laird

II. Learning from the San

6. Green Diamonds of the South: An Overview of the San-Hoodia Case
Rachel Wynberg, Roger Chennells

7. Policies for Sharing Benefits from Hoodia

Rachel Wynberg

8. The Struggle for Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights: The Case of Namibia
Saskia Vermeylen

9. Speaking for the San: Challenges for Representative Institutions
Roger Chennells, Victoria Haraseb, Mathambo Ngakaeaja

10. Trading Traditional Knowledge: San Perspectives from South Africa, Namibia and Botswana
Saskia Vermeylen

11. Putting Intellectual Property Rights into Practice: Experiences from the San
R. Chennells

12. Sharing Benefits Fairly: Decision-Making and Governance
Rachel Wynberg, Doris Schroeder, Samantha Williams, Saskia Vermeylen

III. Reflections

13. The Role of Scientists and the State in Benefit Sharing: Comparing Institutional Support for the San and Kani
Sachin Chaturvedi

14. The Law is not Enough: Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Rights Against Mining Interests in the Philippines
Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo, Fatima Alvarez-Castillo

15. Benefit Sharing is No Solution to Development: Experiences from Mining on Aboriginal Land in Australia
Jon Altman

16. Human Research Ethics Guidelines as a Basis for Consent and Benefit Sharing: A Canadian Perspective
Kelly Bannister

17. The Limitations of Good Intent: Problems of Representation and Informed Consent in the Maya ICBG Project in Chiapas, Mexico
Dafna Feinholz-Klip, Luis García Barrios, Julie Cook Lucas

IV. Conclusions and Recommendations

18. Conclusions and Recommendations: Towards Best Practice for Community Consent and Benefit Sharing
Rachel Wynberg, Roger Chennells, Doris Schroeder

Keywords: Environment, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Social Sciences, general, Anthropology, Sociology, Ethics, Social Policy