Vijay Prashad: Patents of a Parasitical North
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/07/vijay-prashad-patents-of-a-parasitical-north/
Global South countries are trapped in Global North-dominated patents and licensing fees that are stripping them of wealth and stunting their development. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The number in the graph above, based on data from the…
#Politics #AdvancedTechnologies #Brazil #Brics #Commentary #Covid19 #Economy #IncomeInequality #India #International #Legal #SouthAfrica #AgreementOnTradeRelatedAspectsOfIntellectualPropertyRights(trips) #Biopiracy #GeneralAgreementOnTradeAndTariffs(gatt) #GlobalNorth #GlobalSouth #HivAids #HomeroAridjis #Ibsa #IntellectualPropertyRights #PostColonialism #UruguayRound #VijayPrashad #WorldIntellectualPropertyOrganisation(wipo) #WorldTradeOrganisation(wto)

Kenya: Belgian nationals plead guilty to smuggling protected ants http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TK9gZr #Kenya #WildlifeConservation #Ants #Biopiracy #EnvironmentalProtection

GMO maize farming triggers major concerns in Mulugu, in the Indian state of Telangana. Local farmers were told the seeds would produce up to 4 tonnes per acre, but the yields were far lower. According to V. Suresh Kumar, district agriculture officer, these GMO maize seeds were sourced from multinational companies, and such #GMO seed trials conducted without proper documentation and accountability may result in severe legal consequences, including penalties for #biopiracy. https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/telangana/gm-maize-farming-triggers-major-concerns-in-mulugu-1866356

Bioprospecting (Biodiversity 🦗)

Bioprospecting is the exploration of natural sources for small molecules, macromolecules and biochemical and genetic information that could be developed into commercially valuable products for the agricultural, aquaculture, bioremediation, cosmetics, nanotechnology, or pharmaceutical industries. In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, almost ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioprospecting

#Bioprospecting #Seeds #Botany #Bioethics #Biopiracy #Biodiversity

It’s Perfectly Fine To Patent Inventions Obtained By Immoral Means Says European Patent Office - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/20/its-perfectly-fine-to-patent-inventions-obtained-by-immoral-means-says-european-patent-office/ morals, who needs them? #epo #patents #biopiracy

I've seen a lot of excitement about that @404mediaco piece on #FourThievesvinegarCollective's instructions for home synthesis of patented pharmaceuticals, and I get that everyone's excited that it's all cool and cyberpunk but what I feel is missing from the fediverse discussion is any consideration of safety.
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/

#BioPiracy #BioHacking

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Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘#biopiracy’ battle - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/29/nature-biodiversity-genetic-digital-sequencing-information-dsi-biopiracy-cop16-aoe "As multinationals and researchers harvest rare organisms around the world, anger is rising in the global south over the unpaid use of lucrative genetic codes found on their land"

The 193 member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization agreed to a groundbreaking new treaty requiring patents to disclose if an invention was derived using Indigenous and traditional knowledge.

https://wildhunt.org/2024/05/landmark-treaty-to-protect-traditional-and-indigenous-knowledge.html

#WIPO #intellectualproperty #indigenouspeoples #biopiracy #unitednations

"Nations agree landmark treaty on traditional #knowledge, protecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights"

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1150231

#biopiracy #UN #IndigenousPeoplesRights

Agreement reached at UN on #biopiracy treaty.

#genetic_resources #traditional_knowledge #agriculture

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-agreement-biopiracy-treaty.html

India has successfully defended its traditional knowledge of turmeric from biopiracy, a practice of patenting indigenous resources without proper consent or compensation. The country has created a digital library of its ancient medicinal wisdom, called the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), which has helped invalidate hundreds of foreign patents on turmeric and other herbs. #Turmeric #Biopiracy #TKDL #India

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1197321273/turmeric-india-biopiracy-patent-tkdl?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

'What started out as a plan to rescue one Indian remedy from the clutches of the U.S. patent office, eventually turned into a much bigger mission – to build a new kind of digital fortress, strong enough to keep even the most rapacious of bio-pirates at bay.' https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1197321273/turmeric-india-biopiracy-patent-tkdl #biopiracy #patent

☣️The @EU_Commission proposal on new #GMO gives centre stage to #biopiracy and the #privatization of #seeds by #patent holding companies! @ECVC1/@via_campesina call on the @Europarl_EN & @EUCouncil to reject this unacceptable proposal:
➡️ https://www.eurovia.org/press-releases/european-commission-proposal-on-new-gmos-favours-biopiracy-over-rights-of-farmers-and-citizens

#StopGMO #UNDROP @ecvc

https://undark.org/2023/05/03/opinion-stemming-the-threat-of-biopiracy-on-the-high-seas/ #conservation #biodiversity #biopiracy

This Saturday, 22.April, is Earth Day and #Vandana #Shiva will speak at 12:30 an event in Berlin, at the "Weltacker". Shiva is best known for her advocacy on peasant rights, ecological farming, #OpenSourceSeeds and her activism against #biopiracy.

Don't miss her:
https://tockify.com/2000m2.eventkalender/detail/608/1682150400000

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1. Biopiracy is deeply intertwined in the process(es) of colonization

2. It is generally accompanied by a reductionist and often Eurocentric mentality

3. It is typically done for the purpose of accruing capital and accordingly takes the form of capitalist exploitation

#biopiracy #colonization #capitalism #labor #piracy #nature

(2/3) #Biopiracy, in a nutshell, is when corporations or other private actors claim ownership of natural resources and/or the ways in which they are utilized.

Vandana Shiva offers several key revelations about biopiracy which help flesh out this basic definition:

(1/3) The term #biopiracy—which is said to have been coined in the early 1990s by Canadian environmentalist Pat Roy Mooney—has grown popular with some help from the renowned environmental activist Vandana Shiva