1. We can not afford to undervalue the traditional knowledge of rural people.

2. Traditional knowledge is a distinctive system from modern knowledge system, with the characteristics of localization, communality , dynamic and non-novelty.

3. Nowadays, the protection of traditional knowledge is evoking heat discussion worldwide.

4. It aims to legitimise traditional knowledge and protect it from biopiracy and patent claims by providing information to patent offices for cross-checking of new applications.

5. Traditional knowledge is gradually recognized as an important knowledge source that has great economic potentialities.

6. Indian traditional knowledge could soon help researchers develop new drugs for diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, because of plans to make some of this knowledge publicly available.

7. "In the past, modern scientists have regarded non-Western traditional knowledge as being backward, and no more than a supplier of raw materials for drug discovery and development," he said.

8. Also traditional knowledge can play a role: folded over traditional saris can, for example, be better at filtering water than plastic filters.

9. Any erosion or loss of traditional knowledge systems will be felt by all.

10. This provides convenient access to traditional knowledge but demands, in return, a fair share of benefits arising from the modified use of traditional products.

11. Government planners and policy makers sometimes overlook this traditional knowledge.

12. "For the first time, traditional knowledge started to be codified in a language and in systems that the patent offices could use, " he says.

13. Scientists in the area have welcomed Native participation but maintain that traditional knowledge is also limited.

14. Many initiatives are under way to collect, record and document traditional knowledge, and disseminate it through databases and publications.

15. Finally, the list of the existing international intellectual property protection of traditional knowledge model.

16. In essence, we need an integrative knowledge system that acknowledges the epistemological differences between traditional knowledge and modern science.

17. Knowledge is made to be shared — but showing respect for traditional knowledge systems will ensure their sustainable use in research and development.

18. Ontology is introduced to the knowledge base in this paper based on the traditional knowledge base system.

19. As the present-day main-stream pedagogy,(http://) communicative teaching approach focuses on learners'communicative competence nurturing rather than on traditional knowledge impartation and skills'training.

20. Perhaps it is time to consign to cultural history the notion that traditional knowledge systems are at odds with the ideals of modern science.

21. And doing so eats into budgets that could otherwise be spent using traditional knowledge to develop new and urgently needed treatments for diseases such as malaria.

22. WIPO also agreed to set up a fund to help indigenous people attend discussions of its work on local genetic resources and traditional knowledge.

23. Rural women are farmers, fishers, herders and entrepreneurs; keepers of ethnic identities, traditional knowledge and sustainable practices; care-givers, parents and guardians.

24. Both actions are examples of a growing trend to incorporate traditional knowledge into modern patent applications.

25. They follow agreements — signed last year by the USPTO and the EPO — with India to consult its Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) before granting patents.

26. For example, it is ethically and legally important that scientists acquire informed consent from custodians of traditional knowledge — but what else?

27. Apart from setting out a research agenda for traditional medicine, this action plan also addresses the need to prevent misappropriation of health-related traditional knowledge.

28. The starting point is to establish the identity of the raw material by consulting a reliable traditional source — texts as well as traditional knowledge holders.