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A Directory of
Acronyms
ACTS:
African Centre for Technology
Studies
ASOMPS:
Asian Symposium on Medicinal Plants,
Spices and other Natural
Products
CBD:
Convention on Biological
Diversity
CEDI:
Ecumenical Documentation and
Information Centre
CEL:
Commission on Environmental Law
CIEL:
Center for International
Environmental Law
CIR:
Collective Intellectual Rights
COAMA:
Programme for the Consolidation of
the Amazon Region
CONABIO:
Comisión Nacional para el
Conocimiento y Uso de la
Biodiversidad
COP:
Conference of the Parties
CS:
Cultural Survival
DGIS:
Directorate General for International
Cooperation
ELC:
Environmental Law Centre
ELP:
Environmental Law Programme
FAO:
Food and Agriculture
Organization
FIELD:
Foundation for International
Environmental Law and
Development
FPH:
Fondation pour le Progrés de l
Homme
FTPP:
Forest, Trees and People
Programme
GATT:
Global Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade
GEF:
Global Environmental Facility
GRAIN:
Genetic Resources Action
International
HFC:
Healing Forest Conservancy
IARC:
International Agricultural Research
Centre
IBEC:
Institute of Biodiversity and
Environmental Conservation
ICBG:
International Cooperative
Biodiversity Groups
IDRC:
International Development Research
Centre
IFABS:
Indonesian Foundation for the
Advancement of Biological
Sciences
IK:
Indigenous Knowledge
IKP:
Indigenous Knowledge Programme
ILO:
International Labour Office
INBio:
Instituto Nacional de
Biodiversidad
INDISCO:
Inter-Regional Programme to Support
Self-Reliance of Indigenous and
Tribal Communities through
Cooperatives and Other Self-Help
Organizations.
IPBC:
Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity
Centre
IPBN:
Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity
Network
IPGRI:
International Plant Genetic Resources
Institute
IPR:
Intellectual Property Rights
ISA:
Instituto Socioambiental
ISE:
International Society of
Ethnobiology
ISEE:
International Society for
Environmental Ethics
IUCN:
The World Conservation Union
(formerly the International Union for
the Conservation of Nature and
Natural Resources)
IUPGR:
International Undertaking on Plant
Genetic Resources
LRC-KSK:
Legal Rights and Natural Resources
Center, Inc. - Kasama sa
Kalikasan
MDA:
Mataatua Declaration
Association
NDI:
Nucleus of Indigenous Rights
NGO:
Non-Governmental Organization
NRRP:
Natural Resources and Rights
Program
ODA:
UK Overseas Development
Administration
PEK:
Projek Etnobotani Kinabalu
PPH:
People and Plants Handbook
RAFI:
Rural Advancement Foundation
International
RBLAC:
Regional Bureau for Latin America and
the Caribbean
RECIEL:
Review of European Community and
International Environmental Law
SAREC:
Swedish Agency for Research and
Cooperation with Developing
Countries
SDC:
Swiss Development Corporation
SEB:
Society for Economic Botany
SOLAGRAL:
Solidarités Agricoles et
Alimentaires
SRISTI:
Society for Research and Initiatives
for Sustainable Technologies and
Institutions
TCDC:
Technical Cooperation among
Developing Countries
TRR:
Traditional Resource Rights
TWN:
Third World Network
UN:
United Nations
UNCED:
United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development
UNDP:
United Nations Development
Programme
UNEP:
United Nations Environment
Programme
UNESCO:
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural
Organization
UNIMAS:
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
UNRISD:
United Nations Research Institute for
Social Development
UNU:
United Nations University
WCIP:
World Council for Indigenous
Peoples
WGIP:
Working Group on Indigenous
Peoples
WGTRR:
Working Group on Traditional Resource
Rights
WHO:
World Health Organization
WRI:
World Resources Institute
WRM:
World Rainforest Movement
WWF:
World Wide Fund for Nature
WWW:
World Wide Web
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Who are we?
A List of
Contributors
A broad range of people
from various countries and academic
backgrounds collaborate on the People and
Plants Handbook. Here’s a key to the
initials found in the preceding
pages:
- ABC is Anthony B. Cunningham, a
field coordinator of the People
and Plants Initiative from South
Africa. Now based in Betty’s
Bay, South Africa, he focuses on
projects in Africa. He studied
natural resource management and
rural sociology.
- ALH is Alison Hoare, a botanist
from the United Kingdom and
assistant editor of the Handbook.
Working at the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, she has been
largely responsible for gathering
information and writing summaries
for the Handbook.
- CO is Cecilia Oh, WWF
Malaysia’s Environmental
Policy Analyst since October
1994. She works mainly on
tracking post-UNCED and related
developments. She practised
briefly as an advocate and
solicitor in Malaysia before
joining WWF Malaysia.
- DAP is Darrell Posey, director of
the Programme for Traditional
Resource Rights of the Oxford
Centre for the Environment,
Ethics & Society, and Fellow
of Linacre College, University of
Oxford. He has worked as an
ethnobiologist in the Brazilian
Amazon since 1977 and is a Titled
Researcher of the Brazilian
National Council for Science and
Technology. He is a founding
member and past president of the
International Society for
Ethnobiology.
- GJM is Gary J. Martin, an
anthropologist and botanist from
the United States, is general
editor of the Handbook and a
field coordinator of the People
and Plants Initiative. From his
base at UNESCO in Paris, he
collaborates on projects in Asia,
Latin America and the
Caribbean.
- JC is Javier Caballero, an
ethnobiologist who works for the
National Autonomous University of
Mexico (UNAM). He is coordinator
of the Latin American Ethnobotany
Group (GELA).
- THE is Terence Hay-Edie, an
assistant editor of the Handbook.
An anthropologist and
environmentalist, his main
interests are local peoples’
perceptions of their environment
and cultural landscapes. He is
from the UK, where he studied
human sciences at Oxford
University.
- YA is Yildiz Aumeeruddy, an
ethnobiologist and field
coordinator of the People and
Plants Initiative. A citizen of
Mauritius and France, she resides
in Montpelier, where she works at
the Institut de Botanique. She
focuses on projects in the
Himalayan region and also assists
on some projects in Southeast
Asia.
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