Are there Customary Rights to Plants? An Inquiry among the Baganda (Uganda), with Special Attention to Gender
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Date
2007
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World development
Abstract
Debates around Common Property Resources and Intellectual Property Rights fail
to consider traditional and indigenous rights regimes that regulate plant resource exploitation,
establish bundles of powers and obligations for heterogeneous groups of users, and create differential
entitlements to benefits that are related to social structures. Such rights regimes are important
to maintaining biodiversity and to human welfare; failing to recognize them presents dangers. The
case study investigates the gendered nature of informal rights to selected tree and plant species that
are distinct from, but related to, customary rights to land and trees, and are embedded in cosmology
and social norms.
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Common property resources, Intellectual property rights, Plant resources, Gender, Africa
Citation
Howard, P. L., & Nabanoga, G. (2007). Are there customary rights to plants? An inquiry among the Baganda (Uganda), with special attention to gender. World development, 35(9), 1542-1563. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.05.021