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The University of Winnipeg

Gabriel Ricardo Nemogá Soto, PhD

Gabriel Ricardo Nemogá Soto Title: Professor
Building: Richardson College

Biography:

Gabriel Ricardo Nemogá Soto is a descendent of the Muisca Indigenous People of Colombia, South America.  He has a PhD in Human Ecology (University of California-Davis), a MA in Socio-Legal Studies (Brunel, UK), a BA in Sociology (National University of Colombia), and a BA in Law (Free University of Colombia).  Dr. Nemogá has conducted field and community participatory work with Indigenous peoples and organizations in Colombia, the Andean and Amazon region, and Mexico. His research interest covers Biodiversity Law, Protection of Traditional Knowledge Systems, Indigenous education, and Indigenous rights and economic development.

Dr. Nemogá's work strives for the incorporation of indigenous worldviews and ways of life, normally ignored in decision-making processes, in the development mechanisms for the protection of traditional knowledge and biodiversity. He also sees Indigenous education as a critical step to exercise indigenous self-determination and to ensure the respect towards a culturally distinct ways of life.

Dr. Nemogá previously was an associate professor at the National University of Colombia where he founded the Institute of Socio-Legal Research (UNIJUS), the research group on Policy and Legislation on Biodiversity, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge (PLEBIO), and the Master Program in Bioscience and Law, among other initiatives. His published works in articles, chapter books, and public presentations encompass ethical and legal issues on human genetic research, bioprospecting, property rights and biodiversity, protection of traditional knowledge, Indigenous education and relationships between modern states and Indigenous nations.

He has been involved in research initiatives undertaken with the research group PLEBIO, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, South (IUCN-South) and research partners from Central and South America. He has been involved in leading research initiatives on bioprospecting, bioethics, and traditional knowledge systems in the Andean Community region. His work contributes to the development of the biocultural approach as a framework for the recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems and the rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in contemporary politic and governance.

Dr. Nemogá enjoys working with students committed to pursue their own intellectual curiosity, to explore new ways of understanding and to achieve their academic and professional goals with high academic and ethical standards.

 

Research Interests:
Biodiversity Law, Indigenous knowledge systems, research and policy on genetic resources, natural resources and development, Indigenous education, Indigenous research methodologies.

Publications:

Nemogá G., et. al. 2018. Caminos para el pensamiento ancestral. Guía sobre protección de conocimientos tradicionales de comunidades afrodescendientes y pueblos indígenas. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ministerio del Interior, Embajada Suiza.

Nemogá G., Domicó J. Molina A.  2018. Designing Biocultural Protocols with the Embera People of Colombia.  Langscape 7:2, pp 20-24.

Nemogá G.  2017. Indigenous and Intercultural Education in Latin America: Assimilation or Transformation of Colonial Relations in Colombia, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 39:1, 1-19, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2017.1410115

Nemogá G. 2016. “Diversidad biocultural: innovando en investigación para la conservación.  Acta biol. Colomb., 21(1)Supl:S 311-319

Nemogá-Soto, G.R. (2015) “Biodiversity Research and Conservation in Colombia (1990-2010): the marginalization of Indigenous peoples’ rights.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 39:1, 94-111.

Nemogá-Soto, G. R., Rojas D. A. & Lizarazo O. (2014). Biodiversity research in magadiverse countries: strategies for scientific and technical alliances. In: M. Rios and A. Mora (Eds.), Access to Genetic Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean: Research, Commercialization and Indigenous Worldview. UICN-PNUMA/GEF-ABS-LAC. Quito, Ecuador. Pp. 13-42

Nemogá-Soto, G. R & Cabrera Jorge. (2014). Commercialization of Biodiversity: market for genetic resources and biochemical components. In: M. Rios and A. Mora (Eds.), Access to Genetic Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean: Research, Commercialization and Indigenous Worldview.  UICN-PNUMA/GEF-ABS-LAC. Quito, Ecuador. Pp. 43-78.

Nemogá-Soto, G. R. (2014). Interrelationship between Indigenous worldview and biodiversity: how to protect traditional knowledge and genetic resources? In: M. Rios and A. Mora (Eds.), Access to Genetic Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean: Research, Commercialization and Indigenous Worldview. UICN-PNUMA/GEF-ABS-LAC. Quito, Ecuador. Pp. 81-114

Nemogá-Soto, G.R. (2013). Investigación Genética y Políticas sobre Biodiversidad: escenarios para el reconocimiento de la diversidad étnica y cultural (Genetic Research and Policy on Biodiversity: spaces for the acknowledgment of the ethnic and cultural diversity). Colección Libros Resultados de Investigación. Serie Mayor, No, 2. Bogotá: Ibañez Editores.

Nemogá-Soto, G. R. (2013). Estudio de caso en Perú: Registro de conocimientos colectivos asociados a la biodiversidad (Study case in Peru: Register of collective knowledge associated to biodiversity). En: M Rios and A. Mora (Eds.), Seis estudios de caso en América Latina ye l Caribe: acceso a recursos genéticos y distribución de beneficios. UICN-PNUMA/GEF-ABS-LAC. Quito, Ecuador. Pp. 105-116

Nemogá-Soto, G. R. and Rojas Díaz D. A. (2013). Estudio de Caso en Colombia: Investigación sobre un microorganismo del género Lactococcus sp., (Study case in Colombia Research about a microorganism from the Lactococcus sp. Genus).  Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia En: M Rios and A. Mora (Eds.), Seis estudios de caso en América Latina ye l Caribe: acceso a recursos genéticos y distribución de beneficios. UICN-PNUMA/GEF-ABS-LAC. Quito, Ecuador. Pp. 13-24

Nemogá-Soto, G. R. and Lizarazo O. (2013). Estudio de Caso en Ecuador “Expedición de Muestreo Oceánica Global”, Parque Nacional Galápagos: actividades de colección y aplicación de legislación. (Study case in Ecuador: "Global Ocean Sampling Expedition" Galapagos National Park: collection activities and implementation of legislation.) En: M Rios and A. Mora (Eds.), Seis estudios de caso en América Latina ye l Caribe: acceso a recursos genéticos y distribución de beneficios. UICN-PNUMA/GEF-ABS-LAC. Quito, Ecuador. Pp. 77-88.

Nemogá-Soto, G. R. 2012. Dilemas sobre Biobancos: asuntos éticos y jurídicos (Biobanks: Legal and ethical issues dilemmas). Revista Pensamiento Jurídico, 35. Pp. 195-230

Nemogá-Soto, G. R., & Vargas, I. D. 2010. Contratos de Acceso a Recursos Genéticos: Un análisis comparado (Contracts Access to genetic resources). Revista Pensamiento Jurídico, 27, 157-202.

Nemogá-Soto, G. R., Ávila-Sánchez, L. A., Blanco-Martinez, J. T., Chaparro-Giraldo, A., Jimenez-Ariza, O. F., Lizarazo-Cortes, O. A., et.al. (2010). La investigación sobre biodiversidad en Colombia. (Research on biodiversity in Colombia). Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Instituto de Genética.

Book Chapters

Nemogá. G. 2019. Indigenous Agrobiodiversity. In: Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future, edited by K. S. Zimmerer and S. de Haan. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 24, J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp 241-263.

Visser B., Brush S., Guntra A., Andersen R., Jäger M., Nemogá G., Padmanabhan M., and Sherwood S. 2019. The Governance of Agrobiodiversity. In: Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future, edited by K. S. Zimmerer and S. de Haan. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 24, J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp 283-305.

Nemogá G. and Beltrán Y.  2018. Las agendas de investigación en Biodiversidad en Colombia: una reflexión desde la bioculturalidad /The research agendas on Biodiversity: A reflection from a biocultural perspective. In Uribe M. Estudios en Biociencias y Derecho. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Nemogá G. 2016. “Marginación de los derechos indígenas en los temas de biodiversidad y conocimiento tradicional: el caso colombiano pag. 241-266 In Roca T., Santiago (editor) Biodiversidad y propiedad intelectual en disputa: situación, propuestas y políticas públicas. – Lima : Universidad ESAN, 2016. – 526 p.

Lizarazo, Oscar., Lamprea  N,  &  Nemoga , G. (2013). Harmonizing Protection and Publication of Research Findings in Biosciences and Bioinformatics. En L. F. Castillo, M. Cristancho, G. Isaza, A. Pinzón, & J. M. C. Rodríguez (Eds.), Advances in Computational Biology (pp. 363-370). Springer International Publishing. Recuperado a partir de http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-01568-2_51

Nemogá-Soto, G. R., & Rojas-Díaz, D. A. (2013). Propuesta para la solución al problema de acceso a recursos biogenéticos en Colombia (Proposal for solving the problema to  access to biogenétic resources in Colombia) In Victor Vera (Ed.) La Biología Molecular en las Ciencias Pecuarias. Bogotá. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Editorial Académica Española.

 Nemogá-Soto, G. R. (2010). Tejedores de vida: Revitalizing Indigenous identity and nature-based knowledge in a Muisca community, Colombia.In L. Maffi & E. Woodley,  Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global SourcebookLondon: Earthscan. pp. 103-106.