Indigenous Biodiscovery
Explore our work on Indigenous biodiscovery and benefit sharing, along with a wide range of resources.
Benefit Sharing Compass
We've teamed up with Geo AR Games and created a game to help researchers explore how decisions around Digital Sequence Information (DSI) affect Indigenous data sovereignty and benefit sharing within New Zealand.
He Tohu Ārahi - Guidelines for Protecting Cultural Intellectual Property in Research and Innovation (2024)
K Riddle, M Hudson, N Kusabs, R Sterling
He Tohu Ārahi serves as a starting point for in-depth discussions for Indigenous people involved in research and innovation projects. It provides guidance around the conversations to have, provisions required, and protection mechanisms for mātauranga Māori within research and their various associated agreements.
He Tohu Ārahi launch video
Katie Lee Riddle introduced the new publication - He Tohu Ārahi Guidelines for Protecting Cultural Intellectual Property in Research and Innovation and the accompanying information sheets with thanks to SfTI for their support on the project.
Resource Kete
- Periodic Table of Food Initiative: PTFI: Access and benefit sharing protocols and procedures guide | Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT
- Fungi Foundation: Ethnomycology ethical guidelines
- Tracey Whare and Hikurangi Bioactives: Taonga Species and Intellectual Property
- Te Kotahi Research Institute: He Tohu Ārahi Guidelines for Potecting Cultural Intellectual Property in Research and Innovation
- Newcastle University ICIP protocol and the community guide
- Te Kotahi Research Institute: Te Nohonga Kaitiaki Guidelines for Genomic research on taonga species
- Convention on Biological Diversity: The Rutzolijirisaxik Voluntary Guidelines for the Repatriation of Traditional Knowledge
- Convention on Biological Diversity: Mo'otz Kuxtal Voluntary Guidelines
- Indigenous peoples and local communities as partners in the sequencing of global eukaryotic biodiversity
- Partnerships with Indigenous Peoples for an ethical bioeconomy
- Microbiome ownership for Indigenous peoples
- Why Inclusive Provenance Metadata matters
- Willingness to Pay
- Fair Access or Mirage? A Biodiscovery Case Study at Uluru for Indigenous Benefit-Sharing
- Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands
- TEGA Transforming Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene: An Action Research in the Field of ABS
- VariantBio Benefit Sharing Pledge
- Convention on Biological Diversity: ABS Clearing-House
- Convention on Biological Diversity: Introduction to Access and Benefit Sharing
- Food and Agriculture Organisation: Measuring Non-monetary Benefit Sharing
- Queensland Government: Biodiscovery Resource Toolkit
- Local Contexts: Comic: Restorying Sovereignty with Plant Relatives
- Local Contexts: Short film on Biocultural Labels
- Local Contexts: Short film on Traditional Knowledge Labels
- Global Indigenous Data Alliance: What are the CARE Principles?
- Bioprospecting and Indigenous Knowledge Protection
- Life as Commerce: Bioprospecting in Costa Rica
Indigenous Biodiscovery: Tikanga in Technology presentation
Watch talks from: Keti Marsh-Solomon, Prof Maui Hudson, KatieLee Riddle, Natalie Kusabs, Danny Paruru, and Manu Caddie