NOUN
- biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use
How To Use biopiracy In A Sentence
- Monitoring patents worldwide is a mammoth task and challenging biopiracy obscenely expensive.
- The mechanics of this new form of biopiracy can again be gleaned from well-documented case studies.
- Examples of such biopiracy include patents on neem, turmeric, ginger, pepper, and basmati, to name just a few.
- It would be another form of biopiracy and double standards.
- Photo: Stanley Greene Biopiracy is what watchdog groups and government officials call the plundering of biological organisms for profit. Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy?
- Less interesting is his discussion of Wickham's "biopiracy" and how it furthered Britain's imperial designs. He Hit the Road, Found Rubber
- Such "biopiracy" is now being justified as a new "partnership" between agribusiness and Monocultures, Monopolies, Myths And The Masculinisation Of Agriculture
- Environmentalists here have agreed to establish a cooperation network to fight the increasing danger of biopiracy and exploitation of the country's rich biodiversity by irresponsible businesses.
- According to People and the Planet, environmentalists in some Third World countries now link ecotourism with biopiracy.
- The backdrop was set in 1992 with the introduction of modern efforts to protect biodiversity in the face of so-called biopiracy, the stealing of local genetic material.
