In the 1950s, the African yam was exploited by drugs firm Boots to produce cortisone. But South Africans fought back against the plundering of a plant that they used for traditional healing.
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Legislation as well as academic research governance bodies have failed to safeguard the rights of participants from Africa in genomics research.
Researchers say that without first cutting down on the country’s notorious red tape, Indonesia’s newly signed science law will discourage international collaboration.
In the last two decades, neglect of traditional medicine has been replaced by renewed focus and a raft of policies and new laws.
Traditional knowledge that drives indigenous communities’ innovation in agriculture, medicine and conservation is not protected by existing international law.
How scientists and corporations are plundering the developing world for new substances.
A company plans to flood the market with synthetic rhinoceros horn in an effort to slow poaching but these types of commercially driven conservation efforts are fraught with problems.
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Research Fellow in Conservation Marketing, University of Oxford
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Chercheuse en développement durable, sciences sociales et technologie, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Professor of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Lecturer in Public Policy and Decision Analysis, Universitas Indonesia
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Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director, The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, Stellenbosch University
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Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, IPB University
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Professor of Global Health Law, Cardiff University
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Director-General of Research and Development, Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education
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Evolutionary Genomicist, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Utah
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