Friday, November 17, 2017

Fair Access to and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources : National Policy Development Needed. Local practices pertaining to biodiversity conservation, crop improvement and natural resource management are under stress. Existing laws and mechanisms - such as intellectual property rights (IPRs) - leave communities open to biopiracy because they protect individual as opposed to collective rights and do not recognize traditional knowledge or collaborative innovations such as varieties developed through participatory plant breeding.


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