Articles by Hilaire Avril
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South Still Battling to Stop North’s Biopiracy
Hilaire Avril – InterPress Service-IPS,
13 Sep 2010
Researchers and activists have coined the term biopiracy, “the theft of genetic resources”, to describe corporations’ practice of securing “profitable private monopolies by staking out patent claims on Africa’s genes, plants, and related traditional knowledge”, according to the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB), based in South Africa. In biopiracy cases remedies, long-identified and developed by traditional healers, are appropriated by North-based corporations that claim exclusive rights to their use through copyrighting ingredients or processes.
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Hilaire Avril - TerraViva Europe,
19 Apr 2010
A year after the purchases of vast swathes of farm land in Africa first drew public attention, transactions remain as opaque as ever.
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