permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:11:27 +0000, Andy <andyrug@gmx.net> wrote:

>The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science and Human 
>Rights Program
> are developing an online index of traditional ecological knowledge that is 
> in the public domain. 
> A prototype of the index, TEK*PAD (Traditional Ecological Knowledge Prior 
> Art Database) can be viewed at:  
>
>http://ip.aaas.org/tekindex.nsf 
>
>The idea behind TEK*PAD is to establish prior knowledge about plant uses, 
>this will be useful to help ensure that 
>information about traditional plant uses remains in the public domain and is 
>protected from patent applications. 
>
>They are including the PFAF database in their project. It is great to know 
>that our PFAF will
>be able to help in such an important project. I've included details from 
>their website below.

There is almost nothing there, no links and no mention of PFAF, one
collaborator: Raintree Tropical Plant Database,
http://www.rain-tree.com.




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