Access, yes. Sharing, no

The access and benefit-sharing protocol on biodiversity may do little to deter multinationals from grabbing the planet’s resources

The secret garden

Want to know about a lost variety of rice or a cure to asthma? Answers lie in the notebooks of schoolchildren and women of the Sundarbans and …

Disclosure-shy industry

Pharma and biotech firms are lobbying hard to block disclosure of origin of genetic material used in inventions, but they also raise thorny issues

Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

The Avon lady lifts our biodiversity

Loopholes in the Biological Diversity Act being used to export India’s genetic material

Big step for biocultural rights

The Nagoya Protocol promotes community stewardship of genetic resources. India needs to foster this

Trail of a $500 m gene

How a rare African algae collected by a French academic turns into a commercial bonanza for an equity firm in Hong Kong. Are there any benefits …

Let the genes cross borders

National sovereignty over genetic resources could undermine food security

Breach of trust

The world’s premier rice research institute tilts towards intellectual property rights

Water in a sieve

Don’t confine global resources to national boundaries

The loss of our breeds

Buy an Indian breed from Australia

It’s still open season for bio-piracy

Rich nations block accord on benefit-sharing rules for the world’s genetic resources

The hunt for benefits

India is hailed as a pioneer in implementing the third objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity—fair and equitable sharing of …

Should we play weather god?

Debate continues despite consensus to ban geoengineering

CoP 11: No consensus on resource mobilisation

Jayanthi Natarajan hopeful of Parties agreeing on a final document 

Biodiversity meet: Parties disagree on resource mobilisation

Contact group to now fix individual financial targets for countries

G77, China appeal to developed countries to meet commitments on resource mobilisation

Financial targets agreed to by developed countries in Nagoya were to be determined at CoP 11 in Hyderabad

Nations to share genetic resources

Activists call the text of the agreement vague

UN report warns of effects of urban expansion on biodiversity

Urban areas set to triple by 2030; population to touch 4.9 billion

Implementation of biosafety norms not satisfactory: Gbedemah

 Funds availability a major hindrance, says head of biosafety at CBD

Everyone is stealing germplasm

When agronomist Ralladoddi Hampaiah was advisor to the Russian government, he discovered how easy it was to take genetic resources out of India. …

COP-9 makes slow progress

Scientists warn PM against GM contamination

Ask government to be cautious of Bangladesh's Bt Brinjal cultivation

India has approved ratification of Nagoya Protocol

Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan calls for partnership between developed and developing countries to meet the challenges of protecting …

Forests protected by indigenous communities may get recognition under CBD

Around 370 million ha of forests across the world are conserved by communities with little support from governments