Title: Biodiversity and Sharing of Biological Resources
Abstract: Mankind has a moral obligation to preserve nature for the present and future generations. Biological resources are a precious source of food, feed, fiber, fuel, and pharmaceuticals. The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) signed in 1992 represents a comprehensive international effort to promote conservation, sustainable use, and equitable sharing of biological resources. A supplementary agreement to the CBD, the Nagoya Protocol, provides a transparent legal framework for the third objective of the CBD, that of fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of Genetic Resources and associated Traditional Knowledge (TK). Access and benefit sharing is made transparent to prevent biopiracy by prior informed consent from the government or Competent National Authority and from holders of TK where applicable and through mutually agreed terms or bilateral contracts between bioprospecting companies and the government.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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