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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and fair sharing of the resulting benefits met last month in South Korea to
mark the protocol coming into force. Informal hallway discussions showed signs of a welcome new approach to non-commercial research. An off-shoot of the Convention on Biological Diversity,
the Nagoya Protocol provides a framework for countries to draft legislation that governs access and benefit-sharing agreements. Twelve years of negotiations were adversarial and pervaded by
concerns over biopiracy — the creation of biological products from native species without consent or compensation for the country of origin (see _Nature_ 514, 14–15; 2014). This is a preview
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Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA David E. Schindel * CRIAA Southern African Development and Consulting, Windhoek, Namibia Pierre du Plessis Authors * David E.
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