Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits arising from their Utilisation
Background and Analysis
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12/2013
Hartmut Meyer with Joji Carino, Chee Yoke Ling, Michael Frein, Francois Meyenborg and Christine von Weizsäcker
Edited by Edward Hammond and Chee Yoke Ling.
Published by Berne Declaration, Bread for the World, Ecoropa, Tebtebba and Third World Network.
The fight against biopiracy and its injustice was the main impetus for the push to have an international treaty to be developed under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Convention's third objective of fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the utilization of genetic resources is itself the result of tough negotiation in the early 1990s when the misappropriation, even theft, of the resources of developing countries and of indigenous peoples and local communities gained international attention.
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