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Examples of biopiracy
biopiracy
Biopiracy means nothing unless a product is commercialized and brought to market.
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The rights at issue in the biopiracy debates are primarily ownership rights.
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The following is a selection of some of the further cases in recent biopiracy studies.
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Bioprospecting can become a type of biopiracy when such principles are not respected.
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Biopiracy seeks compensation through profit sharing.
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However, some critics believe that the CBD has failed to establish appropriate regulations to prevent biopiracy.
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The knowledge at issue in the biopiracy debates is often the knowledge of local communities, not the knowledge of their governments.
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The Philippines'Environment Secretary, Heherson Alvarez, promised that his government would push for penalties for biopiracy.
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The Australian government has tightened its rules on patenting seeds after being accused of biopiracy by farmers from developing countries.
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- Biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use
- Situations where corporations from the developed world claim ownership of, or otherwise take advantage of, the genetic resources and traditional knowledge and technologies of developing countries, are often decried. ...
- The appropriation of indigenous biomedical knowledge, especially by patenting naturally occurring substances
- Same as bioprospecting, depending on your point of view.
