2023-07-19 12:03:00
Biopiracy or the looting of living things is the illegitimate appropriation of biodiversity resources or the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples Report by Lydia Ben Ytzhak in Colombia in the footsteps of those who fight against this looting organized in the name of science and profit
Let’s challenge biopiracy: the appropriation in the name of science and above all of profit, of natural resources, biological samples and ancestral knowledge of indigenous peoples. Abusive patenting of medicinal plants, genetically modified seeds, DNA obtained without informed consent, this looting of biodiversity and traditional knowledge can take many forms but sometimes at the expense of indigenous communities, without any ethical consideration or recognition for these poor populations; How to fight against this looting of living things and traditional knowledge by international biotechnology companies, often encouraged by local corruption? And why is this a major issue in North-South relations? All terrain survey and rReportage in the Colombian Amazon of Lydia Ben Ytzhak for RFI
– Carla Crespobiochemist in Bolivia (Researcher at the Superior University of Saint André de La Paz, works with the microorganisms of the microbial diversity of native Indians to solve societal problems)
– Professor IKECHI MGBEOJI, Nigerian jurist (Lawyer and teacher in Canada and Nigeria, expert in intellectual property law and public international law, author of numerous books including “Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants and Indigenous Knowledge”)
– Maria Corazon de Ungria, microbiologist in the Philippines (Director of the DNA Analysis Laboratory at the Natural Science Research Institute of the University of the Philippines and Director of the Biodiversity, Ethnicity and Forensics Program at the Philippine Genome Center)
– Gabriela Montenegro nutritionist in Guatemala (Nutritionist and food scientist in the poorest rural areas of Guatemala to provide health care in Mayan languages and help reduce maternal mortality and child malnutrition)
– Camilo Hernández Colombian Agricultural Engineer (National University of Colombia)
– Sashenka Hernández Estrada, Mexican psychologist (Turicuaro indigenous woman, from Purépecha de Michoacán in Mexico: psychologist filmmaker poet activist)
– Gabriela Doria, botanist (Research Director at the Botanical Garden of Medellin)
– Norberto Lopez, botanist biologist (Curator of the Jaum Herbarium at the Botanical Garden of Medellin)
– “Sopita” the nickname of Ana Yudira Cordoba Mosquera, member of the local knowledge protection project “Los Saberes del Monte”, Eafit University
– Enrique Murillo Palacio Viche manufacturer in Nuqui
– Angelmire Pure people from Villa Nueva et Eusebio Tunay Chamorro, from Puerto Indio
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