biopiracy
English
Etymology
bio- + piracy
Noun
biopiracy (uncountable)
- (derogatory) The appropriation of indigenous biomedical knowledge, especially by patenting naturally occurring substances.
- 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:
- Alongside the nature targets, countries reached a historic agreement to develop a financial mechanism for sharing the benefits from drug discoveries, vaccines and food products that come from digital forms of biodiversity, known as digital sequence information or DSI, after rows about biopiracy in the lead-up to Cop15.
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Translations
appropriation of biomedical knowledge
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See also
- bioprospecting