Africa: The Benefits of Biodiversity - Winners And Losers

30 March 2006

Curitiba, Brazil — Indigenous peoples and peasant farmers who have helped develop the world's plant genetic resources through their traditional knowledge say negotiations aimed at the commercial exploitation of plants must involve them from the very start.

But their demands have turned into a long-running dispute over sovereignty, national boundaries and ownership of knowledge. As the Curitiba meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) draws to a close, the men and women who nurture the world's biodiversity have struggled to make their voices heard.

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