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Christine Sophie Kabuye

Christine Sophie Kabuye is from the Baganda people of Uganda and is a consultant on botanical, biodiversity and local community issues. Christine was formerly the Senior Research Scientist with the National Museums of Kenya. She holds a B.Sc. in Botany and Zoology from Makerere University, Uganda (1964).

Christine's past positions include: Botanist at the East African Herbarium in Nairobi (Botanist in Charge 1971-1994); Ethnobotanist and leader of the Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge at the National Museums of Kenya 1992-1997; and President of the International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) (1995-1996).

Christine has extensive experience in indigenous knowledge issues, including in co-Management of the Indigenous Food Plants Programme in Kenya; and as Leader, Sub-group on Community issues in Biodiversity Conservation for Kenya National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP).

Christine also organized a National Workshop on Indigenous Knowledge for Biodiversity and Development for the National Museums of Kenya and the 5th International Congress of Ethnobiology also held in Nairobi.

She was Chair of the Kenya National Plant Genetic Resources Committee (1987-1994) and Kenyan delegate to the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Christine's publications include:

• Codes of Conduct for the use of Indigenous Knowledge: Proposals for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Local Communities In: Proceedings of the National Workshop on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing in Kenya, (19-20 February, 1998): 24-25

• Socio-Economic Research and Non-Wood Forest Products: An Overview. In: Sunderland, Terry C. H., Laurie E. Clark and Paul Vantomme (Eds) Non-Wood Forest Products of Central Africa-Current Research Issues and Prospects for Conservation and Development, FAO, Rome (1999): 111-115

• The Cultural Values of Some Traditional Food Plants in Africa. In: Posey, Darrell Addison (Ed) Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity. UNEP (1999): 312-315

• Am I My Brother's Keeper? In: Nazarea, Virginia D. (Ed) Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives. The University of Arizona Press (1999): 263-270

• Community Resource Rights. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Exploring the Potential of Indigenous Wild Food Plants of Southern Sudan. Lokichoggio, Kenya (January, 2000): 69-71

• Ethnobiology and Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Ethnobiology (Ed), National Museums of Kenya (2002).

Contact: ckabuye@botany.mak.ac.ug