Greenpeace accused Monsanto of " biopiracy " _ taking genetic materials without providing a fair return to the people they are taken from.
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Even so, Callejas said, he and his graduate students had been accused of biopiracy and booted from one village while on a collecting trip.
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Science has not served us well, " said Debra Harry, a Northern Paiute and coordinator of the Indigenous People's Coalition Against Biopiracy.
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In addition, there was one hall dedicated to the medicinal plants of the Amazon, another to the medicinal plants of the Andes and one on Biopiracy.
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India has claimed biopiracy in a current case involving a patent granted to a U . S . company for rice similar to India's famous Basmati grain.
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In many countries, the fight against what is called biopiracy has proved politically popular, linking the interests of conservative nationalists, indigenous tribes and anti-globalization groups.
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A council of 11 groups of Chiapas healers and midwives complained the project was " biopiracy, " saying big pharmaceutical companies were interested only in financial reward.
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Biopiracy is generally characterized as the act of patenting biological materials _ either plants, animals or genes _ that have traditionally been used by indigenous peoples, without their permission.
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In the area of intellectual property rights and biodiversity, Shiva and her team at the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology challenged the biopiracy of Neem, Basmati and Wheat.
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Critics of this practice, such as Greenpeace, claim these practices contribute to inequality between developing countries rich in biodiversity, and developed countries hosting companies that engage in'biopiracy '.
