9.00 – 9.45
Presentation of the “draft vision” by Task Force 2 (private sector and academia)
Comments by participants and handing over to Task Force 3 (local comunities and civil society)
9.45 – 10.30
Private sector perspective on ABS
Facilitator: Dirk Jung
Presentation by
- Jonathan Landrey, New Business Manager. Phytotrade Africa, South Africa
PhytoTrade: Africa’s Approach to ABS
10.30 – 10.45
Preparation for the excursion to !Khwa ttu
Facilitator: Esther Mwaura-Muiru
Research questions were handed out to the participants – one question for each table group. The groups were tasked to find answers during the excursion to the !Khwa ttu San Culture and Education Center, where presentations and an in-depth discussion of the so-called San-Hoodia case took place. The answers should be presented by the groups on the next day.
Research questions:
- Who owns Hoodia, who owns the associated knowledge?
- Who provides Hoodia?
- How is Hoodia being used and how is value added by whom?
- What are the mechanisms for benefit sharing?
- What are the benefits being realized today, for how and for whom?
- Which stakeholders are actively involved and what is their role and relation?
- What kind of capacity building do the different stakeholders need?
10.45 – 12.00
Coffee break and travel to !Khwa ttu
12.00 – 13.30
Lunch break and photo exhibition about the SAN culture
13.30 – 14.30
Talk by the hosts about the SAN culture and the !Khwa ttu project
14.30 – 16.30
Discussion of the San-Hoodia case
Facilitator: Esther Mwaura-Muiru
Presentations by:
- Rachel Wynberg, Trustee, Biowatch South Africa
Policy and commercialisation frameworks for benefit Sharing, Trade and Use of Hoodia.
- Anetta Bok, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC), South Africa
Formation of the San Council
- Other ethnic groups interested on heritage sights on the Hoodia (also the Koi, Nama etc.)
- Foundation of the San Council in 2000!
- San Council made an agreement with the CSIR
- Establishment of the Hoodia Trust who receives money from CSIR and then contributes this money to applications from the San communities
- Doubt whether the agreement with the CSIR was correct and fair
- Necessity that the government builds the capacities of indigenous communities to handle ABS situations
- Robby Gass, Chairman, Cape Ethno Botanical Growers Association, South Africa
Formation of the Southern African Hoodia Association
- Foundation of the Cape Ethno Botanical Growers Association in 2005 due to threat of the Hoodia becoming extinct and thus the market for exporting Hoodia would be lost:
2005: 25 tonnes of dried Hoodia were CITES issued to be exported
2006: 500 tonnes of dried Hoodia were CITES issued to be exporte
- Hoodia is only allowed to be legally harvested in the Western Cape where it is impossible to harvest 500 tonnes of dried Hoodia.
- Only 2% of the exported dried Hoodia is from cultivation, as only two years ago cultivation started
- 2006 an agreement between this organisation and the Southern African Hoodia Growers Association was reached to merge to one organisation, which also should include Hoodia cultivators from Namibia and Botswana.
- The newly formed Southern African Hoodia Association commits itself to benefit-sharing with the SAN community from the successful cultivation and commercialisation of Hoodia.
- New harvesting permit system should help to sustain the harvesting of the wild Hoodia till the cultivated Hoodia can take over the market.
- Kabir Bavikatte, Regional Director, Protimos Africa Trust, South Africa
Experiences with ABS Capacity-building
16.30 – 21.00
Guided walk to a SAN village and subsequent barbeque overlooking !Khwa ttu and the Atlanik coast
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