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The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources
… 48 3.1.9 Animal health … 72 4.5 Animal health … Animal Diversity (FAO) FOREWORD The Animal Production and Health Division (AGA) of FAO is leading and coordinating the … Chief, Development Law Service Animal Production and Health Division Legal Office 1. INTRODUCTION In view of the …
IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources
… Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), or the World Health Organization (WHO) show that there is not a single … cosmetics, ex-situ collections, etc.; Objective: health and medicine, commerce, conservation, etc.; Specific … for a Global Biological Resource Centre Network HPACC UK Health Protection Agency Culture Collections IUMS …
An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… Traditional Knowledge and Folklore IHR International Health Regulations ILC indigenous and local community INBio … for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants WHO World Health Organization WIPO World Intellectual Property … that threaten or damage human, animal, or plant health; and � consider the importance of genetic resources …
Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… Research in Panama: Linking Science, Technology, Human Health, and Conservation in the Host-Country Context 269 7.1 … among them – a quality that is essential for the continued health and existence of life on earth. Second, it … provi- sions used by the US’s National Institutes of Health, providing an incentive to those who seek to provide …
Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Equity in ABS Governance
… of biodiversity and its value for meeting the food, health, clothing and housing needs of their families, is … a key role in managing local biodiversity to meet food and health needs. In many countries, they also play a crucial … relies on traditional medicine as their primary source of health care. Women manage different resources and make …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… and each plays an essential role in the survival and health of the natural world. • Human beings are not separate … with the environment and their ways of life depend on the health of the ecosystem. In acknowledgement, Article 8(j) … about them, including breeding methods and animal health knowledge. Our indigenous breeds and their …
The long and winding road: negotiating a treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
… exploration and exploitation. A TREATY TO SAFEGUARD THE HEALTH OF THE GLOBAL OCEAN The international community has … the need for a new treaty on another pressing issue: the health of the global ocean. On the eve of an his- toric … resilience and compounding existing impacts 1. See World Health Organization, ‘Availability and consump- tion of …
Beyond access : Exploring implementation of the fair and equitable sharing commitment in the CBD
… relevance is the work of the National Institutes of Health, which has imposed specific benefit-sharing practices … was not clear upon review. 107 The National Institutes of Health program is described in numerous publications, … Groups (ICBG), under the US National Institutes of Health, which has reported- ly adopted specific rules for …
Intellectual property rights in plant varieties: International legal regimes and policy options for national governments
… as trade in goods and services, agriculture, textiles and health-related restrictions on imports. All of these … or morality, including to protect . . . plant life or health or to avoid serious prejudice to the environment." … Members to "adopt measures necessary to protect public health and nutrition, and to promote the public interest in …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… absolute poverty, and 68% of the population had access to health care in 1991. An estimated 42% of the population in … 29.8%, Zambia 24.5% and Zimbabwe 32.3%. Poverty, poor health and sanitation facilities have the potential of … as poverty eradication, infrastructural devel- opment, health in general and HIV/AIDS in particu- lar.114 Presently …