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Research Approaches and Methods
- Ethnographic fieldwork using participatory approaches with the Piaroa
(Wothïha) of the Venezuelan Amazon.
- Analysis of indigenous peoples perspectives on historic cases of intellectual
property claims: Ayahuasca (hallucinogen – psychotherapy), curare
(arrow poison - anaesthesiology), barbasco (fish poison – heart
blocker), Greenheart (antibiotic).
- Local and national level workshops in collaboration with the Regional
Organisation of Indigenous Peoples of Amazonas (ORPIA).
- Mapping of networks which inform and shape indigenous peoples perspectives
on the globalisation of genomics.
- Interviews with regional and national level institutional actors engaged
in plant genomics.
- Statistical analysis of intellectual property claims surrounding traditional
knowledge and plant genomics.
- Ethnographic fieldwork to examine discourses surrounding knowledge
and genetics under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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