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Estancamiento en la discusión sobre el acceso a la biodiversidad
El grupo de negociaciones sobre el acceso a los beneficios de la biodiversidad se encuentra en una situación de estancamiento, debido al enfrentamiento entre los países llamados “megadiversos” y los países desarrollados.
CBD: Access and Benefit Sharing
"We are lacking equity. There is to much access and too little equity."
Since 1994, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has been promising "benfit sharing" to Indigenous Peoples in return for access to biodiversity (for example to collect samples for pharmceutical production, bioprospecting). During these ten years, Indigenous Peoples and farming communities have worked long and hard to realize this goal. Governments' response has come in the form of the so-called Bonn Guidelines. These guidelines turned the CBD into a global enclosure system instead of a benefit sharing mechanism and they have undermined the historic resilience of Indigenous Peoples by encouraging curtailment of their customary system of resource-exchange. Access and benefit sharing (ABS) is connected to biopiracy.
CBD: ECO Newsletter No. 7
C O N T E N T S
¿Qué es el Convenio en Diversidad Biológica?
El Convenio en Diversidad Biológica es una de las herramientas jurídicas que surgieron de la Cumbre de Río en 1992. Allí los responsables de los gobiernos del mundo se pusieron de acuerdo en una serie de medidas para proteger la biodiversidad en el planeta.
CBD: Deadlock on traditional knowledge
Negotiations in the CBD working group on traditional knowledge, innovations and practices, Article 8(j) came to a deadlock after the first week of the COP7.
Article 8(j) states:
CBD: ECO Newsletter No. 5
C O N T E N T S
PELIGRO: BIO-PIRATERIA EN EL CONVENIO SOBRE DIVERSIDAD BIOLOGICA
Comunicado de Prensa - Amigos de la Tierra Internacional
What happened in UK re Bayer Injunction?!?!
Does anyone know the outcome from the injunction hearing today at the high court in the uk? There's nothing abgout it on IndyMedia uk website
Transferring Technology: To the Benefit of Whom?
An article summary of a Technology Transfer event hosted by the Intermediate Technology and Development Group(ITDG) in the Kampung space at the Convention on Biological Diversity. Speakers at the event included Chee Yoke Ling (Third World Network), Hope Shand (The ETC Group), Isabella Masindi (ITDG Africa).
COP7 - Day 1
Terminator seeds as biosafety?
Brazil favours terminator genes
In November 2003, at the Ninth meeting of the Science Body of the CBD (SBSTA 9), Brazil surprised by putting forward a text in favour of terminator crops, based on the argumetation that it could serve as a biosafety measure. The scientific basis of this is very much disputed.
For this proposal, the Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was awarded Biopiracy award for Worst Betrayl.
CBD: ECO Newsletter No.4
Updates and reports from the CBD on the ECO newsletter
CBD: ECO Newsletter No.3
CBD - Jennifer Mourin - Effects of GMOs on Women 2
CBD - Jennifer Mourin interview - GMO impacts on Women 1
The Clock is Ticking for Marine Protection
We are encouraged to see the world community finally take up, as a matter of urgency, the conservation of the irreplaceable biodiversity of the world’s oceans. The World Summit in Johannesburg rang the alarm, declaring clearly that the present catastrophic decline of marine biodiversity and fisheries must be arrested, and soon. The World Park Congress followed by pointing out that scientifically designed networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) are an essential tool to conserve and restore both fisheries and marine biodiversity, setting a direction that the CBD can usefully build on.
Captain Hook Awards (photos)
Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy
CBD: Protected Areas
Joint NGO Statement on
PROTECTED AREAS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES, AND EQUITY
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Terminator seeds might be back on the agenda. In the last meeting of the Scientific Body of the CBD, Brazil put forward a 
Interviews with 
The coalition Against Biopiracy presented the Captain Hook Awards 2004 for Biopiracy.
The coalition Against Biopiracy presented the Captain Hook Awards 2004 for Biopiracy.