Programme of the conference

With specific contributions from NCCR North-South, DOCIP, IIED, FAO-GIAHS, Wageningen University NL.

Tuesday 3 October [top]
08.30 – 09.30	Registration for conference and working groups
09.30 – 10.00	Opening and welcome: IUED, Compas, IUCN, KFPE
10.00 – 10.30	Endogenous Development, power, sciences and society; Objectives and programme of conference Stephan Rist, CDE-University of Bern
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 - 11.45	Challenges for Endogenous Development and Bio-cultural diversity Bertus Haverkort, Compas
11.45 - 12.00	Biocultural diversity , Endogenous Development and international cooperation Willi Graf, SDC
12.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 14.30	Education and learning as a sine qua non for sustainable endogenous development Rachel Gumbi, Principal and Vice-Chancellor University of Zululand
14.30 - 15.00	Challenges for the construction of a pathway of development and democracy of people in Latin America Augusto Barrera, Ex minister and counseller of Quito
15.00 – 15.30	Development in accordance with ones own basic nature: revisiting the traditional Indian ideas on svabhava and swadharma K V Desikachar, Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation, Chennai - India
15.30 – 16.00	Break
16.00 – 16.30	We have to think in a new way Hans Peter Dürr, former director Max Planck Institute, laureate of the alternative noble price
16.30 – 18.10	Introduction to workshops by theme:
	1. Culture and perceptions of nature in biodiversity and management of natural resources Luisa Maffi (Terralingua, Canada) 2. Food sovereignty and agriculture: foundations for an agenda that builds on diversity A.V. Balasubramanian (CIKS, India) 3. Economic, ecological and cultural dimensions of poverty reduction agendas and bio-cultural diversity Freddy Delgado (AGRUCO, Bolivia) 4. Spirituality, religion and biocultural diversity Felipe Gomez (Oxlajuj Ajpop, Guatemala) 5. Mutual learning between different knowledge systems David Millar (UDS/CECIK, Ghana) 6. Reshaping the development agenda: Worldviews and notions of development Aracely Pazmiño (IUCN, Ecuador) 7. Health, human-nature relationships and ecosystems Gerry Bodeker (University of Oxford, Great Britain) 8. Territory as place of integration of indigenous people’s knowledge and biocultural diversity Anastasia Pinto (Meitei people North East India) 9. Education and learning in endogenous development Philip N., Lane Jr. (4worlds USA) 10. Traditional institutions local forms of governance and biocultural diversity Nana Nketsia (paramount chief Ghana)
18.10 - 18.40	Plenary discussion and organization of group works
18.40 – 20.00	Info market
Wednesday 4 October [top]
08.00 – 09.00	Inauguration ritual (traditional leaders)
09.00 – 09.30	Subgroups: Personal introductions
09.30 – 11.00	Presentations of papers and discussion
11.00 – 12.30	Discussion on implications for policy, for research and for action
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 17.00	Formulating conclusions and recommendations Preparation of contribution to declaration of Geneva
17.00 – 18.00	Speech by Rigoberta Menchu
Thursday 5 October [top]
09.00 – 10.30	Presentation of results of the 10 subgroups
10.30 – 11.00	Break
11.00 – 11.30	Presentation of draft declaration
11.30 – 13.30	Discussion of draft declaration
13.30 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 15.15	Presentation of declaration by Rigoberta Menchu
15.15 – 15.45	Speech and comments on the declaration by Rigoberta Menchu
15.45 – 16.15	Speech and comments on the declaration by Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur of the Commission of Human Rights on the Right to Food, United Nations
16.15 – 16.30	Comments of Alain Lipietz, Parliament of the European Union
16.30 – 17.00	Comments by invited guests and organisers
17.00 – 17.15	Closure
17.15 – 18.00	Farewell party

Subgroups [top]

Each subgroup will have a moderator and a reporter.
For each subgroup 4 or 5 persons have been asked to present a paper with some practical experiences and/or theoretical reflection on the theme.
The paper will be between 5-10 pages and can be written in Spanish or English.
Deadline for papers to be delivered: 10 September 2006.
Papers will be published in www.bioculturaldiversity.net (accessible for participants only). The papers can be revised after the conference and be included in the proceedings. The proceedings will be edited as a book to be published commercially.

The presentations will be 15 minutes each, and 10 minutes discussion.
If other persons in the subgroup have a contribution to make, arrangements and time planning can be made with the moderator.
After the presentations, the groups reflects on the implications of the experiences and concepts discussed in the group and formulate recommendations for

Policy making at national and international level
Reshaping relationships between research, education and development initiatives
Future collaborative initiatives.

The group will formulate conclusions and recommendations for each of these and present them to the plenary.

Each group will also formulate a text of not more than 50 words to be included in the Geneva declaration on Endogenous Development and Biocultural Diversity.

There will be 10 subgroups, each focussing on a particular theme.

Elaboration of the themes, subject to further modification

1.	Culture and perceptions of nature in the management of biodiversity and of natural resources
	Key features of worldviews involved in our work (e.g. duality and non-duality, holism) Their contradictions, complementarity or incompatibility. Who’s culture and worldview counts? Different views on nature (e.g. nature seen as a resource for economic and recreation purposes, as habitat or as sacred entity) and its implication for endogenous development and biocultural diversity Implications of cultural diversity for use and conservation of biodiversity and natural resources Assessment of biocultural diversity and its relation to endogenous development and innovation Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Initiatives and commitment of participants
2.	Food sovereignty and agriculture: constructing an agenda that builds on diversity
	Relations between cultural diversity, agriculture, food, food production and sovereignty? Food production, diversity and global markets: Contradictions and potentials? Agriculture and food sovereignty – the role of peasants, state and private sector Political frame-conditions for enhancing food sovereignty and endogenous development Reshaping agricultural science: how to move from uniformisation and control to enhancement of agro-biocultural diversity Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Initiatives and commitment of participants in policy, research and action
3.	Economic, ecological and cultural dimensions of poverty reduction agendas and biocultural diversity (Spanish)
	Different ways of perceiving wealth and poverty by donors, governments and local people (e.g. in material, social and spiritual sense). How to deal with these differences in policy, research and actions? The relation between poverty, wealth, biocultural diversity How to achieve economic diversity in Endogenous development (e.g. building on local values, markets, reciprocity, moral and subsistence economy) Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Initiatives and commitment of participants
4.	Spirituality, religion and biocultural diversity
	Relevance and role of spirituality and religion for endogenous development and biocultural diversity Spirituality, use and conservation of biodiversity and natural resources Conditions for dialogues between formal and informal religions and spirituality Positions of different actors (corporations, donors, governments, local people) on relevance of spirituality and religion and implications for development options Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Initiatives and commitment of participants
5.	Mutual learning between different knowledge systems
	How is/was intra-science and mutual learning organised in the presented case studies? How can intra-science reflection and mutual learning be facilitated? What knowledge systems are/where involved? Which factors support and which hinder mutual learning and co-evolution of knowledge systems How can the different worldviews, powers and interests be balanced? What roles should play the Universities and research organizations in the North and South in intra-science and inter-science (mutual) learning? Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Initiatives and commitment of participants with regard to further action
6.	Reshaping the development agenda: Worldviews and notions of development (Spanish)
	Material, social and spiritual dimensions of development Exogenous development/globalisation as against endogenous development and innovation Millennium development goals versus endogenous development goals Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Initiatives and commitment of participants
7.	Human health, ecosystems and human-nature relationships (Spanish English)
	Diversity of western and traditional medicinal traditions: Complementary, parallel or contradictory Relations between local worldviews, healing practices and biodiversity How to implement medicinal diversity (North-South and within countries) Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research and action Initiatives and commitment of participants
8.	Territory as place of integration of indigenous people's knowledge and biocultural diversity (English)
	Indigenous perceptions of land, identities and local management of territory Communal, public and private property rights and biocultural diversity Influence of globalisation and policies on land use and territories Link between modernisation/globalisation and biocultural diversity of territories/communities Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Initiatives and commitment of participants
9.	Education and learning in endogenous development
	How to handle cultural diversity in worldviews, ways of learning and sources and systems of knowing Diversity of methods: Positivism, qualitative interpretation, transfer of universal/scientific knowledge, or learning from within (intuition, meditation, and other culture-specific sciences) Role of learning and development of content and methods in endogenous learning: implications for basic and higher education Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research and action Initiatives and commitment of participants
10.	Traditional institutions, local systems of governance and biocultural diversity
	Strength and weaknesses of traditional institutions and local governance of biocultural systems Traditional institutions and local governance and its relation with democracy and the state. How to relate them from within? Critical questions, potentials and proposals for change and in policy, research, education and initiatives related to this theme Initiatives and commitment of participants

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