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Chinese province crafts pioneering law to thwart biopiracy [1]

Officials in southern China's Guizhou Province are hoping to head off future attempts at "biopiracy"--the plunder of natural resources--by enshrining the protection of indigenous knowledge into law.

Publication Date: 
09/05/2008
Richard Stone [2]
Science [3]
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Agriculture [4], Organic Farming [5], Rice [6], Traditional Knowledge [7], Biodiversity [8], Biodiversity Conservation [9], Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) [10], Trademarks [11], Legislation [12], China [13]
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