Protecting the right of the local community/country to use their own genetic resources available in a particular area is an important element of environmental and biodiversity conservation. However, one of the biggest biodiversity conservation challenges faced by southern peripheral countries is biopiracy and related issues. I am doing some research works regarding that. Could you pleases help me to fin out suitable research works based on that
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289685255_Biopiracy_of_natural_products_and_good_bioprospecting_practice
Article Biopiracy of natural products and good bioprospecting practice
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Thanks for ur reply and recommended sources. anyway 1st research paper that you have sent me has been written by my self . I am interesting about this topic and I want to find out some data from different regions. How about issues of Biopiracy in your context ??
It appears that recent real cases of economically significant biopiracy are actually relatively rare. Of the four cases cited by Efferth in the first reply, one represented within-country (cross-cultural) 'piracy' (not applicable to international law), two were for products not yet proven to have any significant economic value, and then there is the decades-old poster child, Madagasar phytophora. The $5.4 billion quoted by the UN is mostly for long past issues (worth resolving, but not relevant to current piracy).
What is rarely discussed is the massive cost to legitimate researchers that result from now-widespread export permit polices that are likely to have very little actual desired impact, and are based more on anecdote and paranoia that on actual cases. For example, current restrictions on bio-material export would have no effect on the ability to patent tumeric (cited by more than one paper above), a cat that got out of that bag centuries ago.
Someone needs to produce a database of (all?) proposed biopiracy events of the last 20 years (since it is current piracy that these policies are meant to prevent), along with estimates of the actual economic loss associated with each, not just someone putting in for a patent that ends up going nowhere (which is the fate of most of the bio-material patents). Maybe such a list is already out there; if so please share it here.
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