Biodiversity, biotechnology and traditional knowledge. from the common heritage of humanity to the ABS (access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing).
This article shows that developing countries, by denouncing the common heritage of biodiversity as a colonial heritage of rich countries, which guaranteed free and free access to their resources, and by claiming their national sovereignty over these resources, have far more played the role of biotechnology firms and advanced the cause of the patentability of living that they have defended their interests and those of their populations.
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