Biopiracy

Author : Daniel Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136544119
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting Biopiracy written by Daniel Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Biopiracy' refers either to the unauthorised extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditional knowledge from indigenous peoples and local communities, or to the patenting of spurious 'inventions' based on such knowledge or resources without compensation. Biopiracy cases continue to emerge in the media and public eye, yet they remain the source of considerable disagreement, confusion, controversy and grief. The aim of this book is to provide the most detailed, coherent analysis of the issue of biopiracy to date. The book synthesises the rise of the issue and increasing use of the term by activists and negotiators in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to form a critical understanding of the themes, implications and politics of biopiracy. Taking a case-study based approach, derived from interviews and fieldwork with researchers, government, industry, local farmers, healers and indigenous people, the author sequentially documents events that have occurred in biopiracy and bioprospecting controversies. Implications and ethical dilemmas are explored, particularly relating to work with local communities, and the power relations entailed. Detailing international debates from the WTO, CBD and other fora in an accessible manner, the book provides a unique overview of current institutional limitations and suggests ways forward. Options and solutions are suggested which are relevant for local communities, national governments, international negotiators, NGO and interest groups, researchers and industry.

Author : Ikechi Mgbeoji
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840250
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Biopiracy written by Ikechi Mgbeoji and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as "folk knowledge" or characterized as inferior. Global Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP.

Author : Daniel F. Robinson
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849774714
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting Biopiracy written by Daniel F. Robinson and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Biopiracy' refers either to the unauthorised extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditional knowledge from indigenous peoples and local communities, or to the patenting of spurious 'inventions' based on such knowledge or resources without compensation. Biopiracy cases continue to emerge in the media and public eye, yet they remain the source of considerable disagreement, confusion, controversy and grief. The aim of this book is to provide the most detailed, coherent analysis of the issue of biopiracy to date.The book synthesises the rise of the issue and increasing use of the term by activists and negotiators in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to form a critical understanding of the themes, implications and politics of biopiracy. Taking a case-study based approach, derived from interviews and fieldwork with researchers, government, industry, local farmers, healers and indigenous people, the author sequentially documents events that have occurred in biopiracy and bioprospecting controversies. Implications and ethical dilemmas are explored, particularly relating to work with local communities, and the power relations entailed. Detailing international debates from the WTO, CBD and other fora in an accessible manner, the book provides a unique overview of current institutional limitations and suggests ways forward. Options and solutions are suggested which are relevant for local communities, national governments, international negotiators, NGO and interest groups, researchers and industry.

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623170710
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biopiracy written by Vandana Shiva and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are “the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature.… Life itself is being colonized,” according to renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva. The resistance to this biopiracy, she argues, is the struggle to conserve both cultural and biological diversity. As the land, forests, oceans, and atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, corporations are now looking for new colonies to exploit and invade for further accumulation—in Shiva’s view, the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this edition of Biopiracy is a learned, clear, and passionately stated objection to the ways in which Western businesses are being allowed to expropriate natural processes and traditional forms of knowledge.

Author : Edward Hammond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789675412875
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biopiracy Watch written by Edward Hammond and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Mushita
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biopiracy of Biodiversity written by A. Mushita and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623170702
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biopiracy written by Vandana Shiva and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are “the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature.… Life itself is being colonized,” according to renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva. The resistance to this biopiracy, she argues, is the struggle to conserve both cultural and biological diversity. As the land, forests, oceans, and atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, corporations are now looking for new colonies to exploit and invade for further accumulation—in Shiva’s view, the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this edition of Biopiracy is a learned, clear, and passionately stated objection to the ways in which Western businesses are being allowed to expropriate natural processes and traditional forms of knowledge.

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781856492188
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monocultures of the Mind written by Vandana Shiva and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the posititon of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge. In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems posed. Underlying her arguments is the view that the North's particular approach to scientific understanding has led to a system of monoculture in agriculture - a model that is not being foisted on the South, displacing its societies' ecologically sounder, indigenous and age-old experiences of truly sustainable food cultivation, forest management and animal husbandry. This rapidly accelerating process of technology and system transfer is impoverishing huge numbers of people, disrupting the social systems that provide them with security and dignity, and will ultimately result in a sterile planet in both North and South, In a policy intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the aid and market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralised, homogenous systems of cultivation.

Author : Nisha Dhanraj Dewani
Publisher : Information Science Reference
ISBN 13 : 9781799818359
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Property Rights and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge written by Nisha Dhanraj Dewani and published by Information Science Reference. This book was released on 2019 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""This book explores the protection of traditional knowledge and indigenous peoples' rights through intellectual property"--Provided by publisher"--

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Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843696452
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protecting Indigenous Knowledge Against Biopiracy in the Andes written by and published by IIED. This book was released on 2006 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: