‘That plant is my ancestor’: dilemmas for intellectual property in developing countries, food security and Pacific Island countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Farran
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Pacific Island Countries

Intangible Cultural Property, Tangible Databases, Visible Debates: The Sawau Project

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Carlo Pigliasco
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Collaborative Tool ◽  
Digital Documentation ◽  
Pacific Island Countries

AbstractIntellectual property claims have long been sustained in a way that is now under severe scrutiny. Pacific Island countries continue to face unauthorized uses of their traditional knowledge and practices. In response, international agencies in collaboration with Pacific Island countries are promoting sui generis forms of protection. The Institute of Fijian Language and Culture's Cultural Mapping Programme looks beyond ongoing debates about indigenous collection and digitization of intangible heritage to promote sui generis protection measures in lieu of western intellectual property law. Supported by an Institute grant, the unfolding Sawau Project creates an archive of sites, stories, and shared memories of the Sawau people of Beqa, an island iconic in Fiji for its firewalking practice (vilavilairevo). Advocating a form of social intervention in situ, The Sawau Project has become a collaborative tool to encourage digital documentation, linkages, and institutional collaborations among Fijian communities and their allies to negotiate and promote alternative forms of protection.

scholarly journals Envisioning South-South relations in the fields of environmental change and migration in the Pacific Islands - past, present and futures

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eberhard Weber
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Pacific Island Countries

Climate change poses severe threats to developing countries. Scientists predict entire states (e.g. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, and Maldives) will become inhabitable. People living in these states have to resettle to other countries. Media and politicians warn that climate change will trigger migration flows in dimensions unknown to date. It is feared that millions from developing countries overwhelm developed societies and increase pressures on anyway ailing social support systems destabilizing societies and becoming a potential source of conflict.Inhabitants of Pacific Islandsahave been mobile since the islands were first settled not longer than 3,500 years ago. Since then people moved around, expanded their reach, and traded with neighbouring tribes (and later countries). With the event of European powers in the 15thcentury independent mobility became restricted after the beginning of the 19thcentury. From the second half of the 19thcentury movements of people predominately served economic interests of colonial powers, in particular a huge colonial appetite for labour. After independence emigration from Pacific Island countries continued to serve economic interest of metropolitan countries at the rim of the Pacific Ocean, which are able to direct migration flows according to their economic requirements.If climate change resettlements become necessary in big numbers then Pacific Islanders do not want to become climate change refugees. To include environmental reasons in refugee conventions is not what Pacific Islanders want. They want to migrate in dignity, if it becomes unavoidable to leave their homes. There are good reasons to solve the challenges within Pacific Island societies and do not depend too much on metropolitan neighbours at the rim of the Pacific such as Australia, New Zealand and the USA. To rise to the challenge requires enhanced Pan-Pacific Island solidarity and South-South cooperation. This then would result in a reduction of dependencies. For metropolitan powers still much can be done in supporting capacity building in Pacific Island countries and helping the economies to proposer so that climate change migrants easier can be absorbed by expanding labour markets in Pacific Island countries.

Diversifying the use of tuna to improve food security and public health in Pacific Island countries and territories

Marine Policy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 584-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann D. Bell ◽  
Valerie Allain ◽  
Edward H. Allison ◽  
Serge Andréfouët ◽  
Neil L. Andrew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
Improve Food Security
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