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Pharmaceutical companies would need to compensate indigenous people for using their knowhow in creating new medicines
Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
The Nagoya protocol is an international biological diversity convention. The protocol would at it's core require permission, acknowledgment of source knowledge or practice and compensation for the use of cultural wisdom.
i don't see Nagoya as a perfect solution - there is a lot of room for language interpretation so slick corporate lawyers will find ways to legally cheat indigenous peoples from their share but I do see it as at least A small step in the right direction.
The World Health Organisation estimates that 4 billion people, 80% of the world's population, use herbal medicine in primary healthcare.
Cherokees Believe and have practiced healing from plant and water for thousands of years. Every and any human sickness has a plant who can cure it. Every plant in the world has a purpose if we but learn to hear and understand what that is - there are no weeds to the Cherokee.
Yona Shawn