Biological diversity sustains rural/indigenous communities and acts as a limitless reservoir for new food sources, medicines, and other biogenetic products
- What is biodiversity?
- Why protect biodiversity?
- How is biodiversity being protected?
- How does Biodiversity Affect our Food Supply?
Our understanding of the genetic code has opened up a pandora's box of biotechnology. Biodiversity and its genetic information is a limitless reservoir of potential commercial products.
- What are genetic resources (GR)?
- What is bioprospecting?
- What is biopiracy?
- What is access and benefit sharing?
The traditional knowledge of indigenous people includes a deep understanding of ecological processes and sustainable resource management. This knowledge can provide solutions to global issues such as species extinction and habitat loss.
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The discovery of the genetic code in the 1960s, along with the breakthrough in Recombinant DNA technology in the 1980s, set the stage for the patenting of gene sequences within life forms.
- What is intellectual property (IP)?
- How do IP rights apply to genetic resourecs?
- How does patenting genetic resources affect TK holders?
- What steps are being taken to apply IP rights to TK?