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DESCRIPTION:The Philippines served as the center of Pacific trade during th
 e early modern period and Luzon acted as the gateway to China and Southeas
 t Asia for Spanish explorers and later colonizers. Spanish administrators 
 paid close attention to indigenous plant knowledge on both sides of the Pa
 cific to ascertain the commercial value of plants. Through an analysis of 
 archival materials from Missions and government records\, this paper focus
 es on exchanges of commodity crops between Spanish California and colonial
  Manila in order to track indigenous plant knowledge exchanged between Asi
 a and California. The Philippines maintained a central role in Pacific tra
 nsfers which in turn led to exchanges with China and Southeast Asia. Curre
 nt debates around who produces knowledge and who owns communal knowledge a
 re central to sustainable development plans laid out by the United Nations
 . The landmark Treaty on Intellectual Property\, Genetic Resources and Ass
 ociated Traditional Knowledge signed in 2024 protects traditional knowledg
 e and biological resources of indigenous people\, which alters internation
 al patent laws. This treaty is the first international attempt to validate
  indigenous knowledge and to protect the biological resources of the Globa
 l South. This study focuses on historical exchanges\, but the power dynami
 cs established in the past influenced contemporary issues.
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LOCATION:Room 208 (Seats 40)
SUMMARY:Circulating Botanical Knowledge: Indigenous Expertise and Pacific B
 ioprospecting in the Early Nineteenth-Century Spanish Empire - Carey McCor
 mack
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/E3S3GG/
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