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With over 30 books published, he is the director of Inbrapi, an entity created in 2001 with the aim of defending traditional knowledge from bio-piracy and exploitation by third parties.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Indian writers and poets on the blogosphere 2009
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She accuses multinational seed companies of "bio-piracy, where you take stuff from the Third World, claim it to be an invention of a U.S. company, and then sell it back for a profit, and forbid the original contributors from having free access."
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The plant is on the verge of extinction in India because of bio-piracy.
Photography Contest: Finalists, Threatened or Endangered - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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She accuses multinational seed companies of "bio-piracy, where you take stuff from the Third World, claim it to be an invention of a U.S. company, and then sell it back for a profit, and forbid the original contributors from having free access."
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The plant is on the verge of extinction in India because of bio-piracy.
Photography Contest: Finalists, Threatened or Endangered - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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She accuses multinational seed companies of "bio-piracy, where you take stuff from the Third World, claim it to be an invention of a U.S. company, and then sell it back for a profit, and forbid the original contributors from having free access."
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This is being done to not only acquiesce to the CAFTA [trade illegal] provisions, but also to reduce the standards by which bio-piracy corporations operate.
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This is being done to not only acquiesce to the CAFTA [trade illegal] provisions, but also to reduce the standards by which bio-piracy corporations operate. '
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UNOSJO also questioned whether the project, which in addition to the involvement of the U.S. military office that runs the controversial Human Terrain System, involves the participation of Radiance Technologies — a weapons development and intelligence company that could in the future use the information collected to the detriment of the local population in terms of counter-insurgency, bio-piracy, or the privatization of land.
U.S. Military Funded Mapping Project in Oaxaca: University Geographers Used to Gather Intelligence? 2009
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Environmentalists have described the Dupont application as "bio-piracy".
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