Modern foods, medicines and textiles depend on millennia of selective breeding by Indigenous peoples, generating species with useful genetic properties — but these efforts have been mostly uncompensated (C. Lawson et al. J. Intellect. Prop. Law Pract. 19, 337–357; 2024). In late 2024, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity established the Cali Fund to accept voluntary corporate payments for use of genetic information. This fund would support biodiversity and pay Indigenous peoples for their contributions. It remains empty.
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Source: Ecology - nature.com
