UNCBD Clause of "Access and Benefit Sharing": Linking through traditional medicines, despite legal challenges

Slugline: Biological Diversiy has its legal challenges By Malini Shankar Digital Discourse Foundation Potions and lotions help with home remedes ... power of traditional medicines. It was the days of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in the second half of the 1980s when bureaucrats from all countries were haggling out the best possible terms for the welfare of the people in their own countries. The Uruguay Round of Trade Negotiations made way for Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Organisation. This had nothing much to do with day long excursions as it comes out but belongs truly to rarefied, intellectually challenging trade negotiations - utterly invisible in plain sight. Negotiations was not easy for emerging economies in trade, more so in areas such as intellectual properties and traditional wisdom. Imagine the hapless bureaucrat’s state of mind if he or she had to negotiate to quantify intangi...