Confronting Biopiracy: Challenges, Cases and International Debates - Daniel F. Robinson - Google Books

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'Biopiracy' refers either to the unauthorised extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditional knowledge from indigenous peoples and local communities, or to the patenting of spurious 'inventions'…