The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing

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Le protocole de Nagoya et sa transcription dans le projet de loi français sur la biodiversité sont un pas en avant pour lutter contre l’accaparement abusif de ressources biologiques. Les populations locales devraient ainsi pouvoir mieux bénéficier des avantages issus de la commercialisation des éléments du vivant.Néanmoins, l’intérêt des entreprises privées reste prioritaire et la portée …

Good models have been developed to ensure benefit sharing in the biodiversity business. But major challenges prevent developing countries from translating this into social justice.

Peru is home to more than 25,000 plant species, one-third of which can only be found on Peruvian territory. A significant portion of animal species also call Peru home-about 10% of the worlds fish species, for example.

Biopiracy, When Indigenous Practices Are Stolen And Patented

Patents increasingly undermine the strong legal edifice patiently constructed by UPOV (1). However, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture guarantees free access to the main industrial resource of plant breeders - peasants’ seeds collected from farms across the world. This article argues that broadening the reach of patents over genetic resources is increasingly replacing benefit sharing, which undermines the multilateral governance of our common heritage. It concludes that the Treaty offers a new legal basis to govern access to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and to compel industry to pay its dues.

By Amy G. Fensome, Policy Intern The UK is moving ever closer to the full implementation of the Nagoya Protocol, or to give it its full title “The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic resources and the Fair and Equitable sharing of Benefits Arising...

Seeds of exotic plants illegally collected in the Himalayas are being sold in the UK, a BBC investigation has found.

« On ne peut plus tolérer l’utilisation abusive des connaissances traditionnelles » des populations locales par les chercheurs, juge le président de la collectivité de Guyane.