Ownership of genetic resources: On the appropriation of traditional knowledge in the bio-economy
Outline
The research project investigates the attempted imposition of ownership structures on traditional knowledge about genetic resources. It aims to gain insights into the internal dynamics of the objects of ownership, which complicate that propertisation process, and the potential emergence of alternative ownership regimes and alternatives to private property itself in the global bio-economy.
The empirical focus of the study is on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol from its international negotiation forums to the debates on reparation payments between indigenous peoples and companies in Brazil.
Contact: biodiv-property@uni-jena.de
Project activities
Publications
Scientific publications
- Relly, Eduardo (2023): "Stevia as a genetic resource: intellectual property and Guarani strategies for access-and-benefit sharing in Paraguay and Brazil", In: Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society), v. 13.
- Tittor, Anne; Relly, Eduardo; Backhouse Maria (2023): “¿De quién es y quién decide sobre la biodiversidad? Un análisis crítico del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológic”, In: Ecología Política, Nr. 66 Crisis ecológica y pérdida de biodiversidad, 2023.
- Tittor, Anne; Backhouse, Maria; Lühmann, Malte (2023): "Extraktive Bioökonomie: Implikationen des globalen Sojakomplexes“, In: Paula-Irene Villa (ed.): Polarisierte Welten: Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2022, 26.-30. Sept. 2022, Universität Bielefeld. München: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS).
- Relly, Eduardo (2023): "Recursos genéticos e bioprospecção no Brasil: capitaloceno, protagonismo e os (des)caminhos até o Protocolo de Nagoya (2010)“, In: Caravelle, 119 | -1, 89-106. DOI: 10.4000/caravelle.13152.
- Backhouse, Maria; Lühmann, Malte; Tittor, Anne (2022): “Global Inequalities in the Bioeconomy: Thinking Continuity and Change in View of the Global Soy Complex”, in: Sustainability 14, 5481. DOI: 10.3390/su14095481
- Tittor, Anne (2022): „Inwertsetzung/Kommodifizierung/Finanzialisierung“, in: Daniela Gottschlich, Sarah Hackfort, Tobias Schmitt, Uta von Winterfeld (Hrsg.) (2022): Handbuch Politische Ökologie. Theorien, Konzepte, Begriffe und Methoden. Bielefeld. Transcript Verlag, 399-405.
- Relly, E.; De Majo, C. (2022): "A soyance of Fire: Knowledge, Science and the igneous Expansion of Soyabean in tropical/subtropical South America.“, In: The Age of the Soybean: An Environmental History of Soy During the Great Acceleration, Claiton Marcio da Silva, Claudio de Majo (eds.), 143-163.
- Backhouse, M.; Lehmann, R.; Lorenzen, K.; Lühmann, M.; Puder, J.; Rodríguez, F.; Tittor, A. (eds.) (2021): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production, London: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Media and Podcasts
- Relly, Eduardo; Schlender, Leonie; Tittor, Anne (2024): "Quo vadis Nagoya Protocol? Access-and-benefit sharing of genetic resources of biodiversity in times of digitalization”, In: blog of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property”. (published on 20.02.2024)
- Tittor, Anne, Relly, Eduardo, Backhouse, Maria (2023): "Wem gehört die Biodiversität? Von Global Commons über intellectual property rights zu open access”, In: blog of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property”. (published on 30.10.2023)
- Relly, Eduardo (2023): "The nature of DSI: an historian at the COP15 in Montreal", In: Niche - Network in Canadian History & Environment. https://niche-canada.org/2023/02/28/the-nature-of-dsi-a-historian-at-the-cop15-in-montreal/
- Relly, Eduardo (2022): "Eduardo Relly zu Gast bei der UN-Biodiversitätskonferenz", In: Website of CRC „Structural change of property". (published on 22.12.2022)
Events
- Workshop “Mein? Dein? Unser? Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Bedeutung des Eigentums für die sozial-ökologische Transformation”, Cooperation event of the Transformation Research Cluster of the Heinrich Böll Foundation with the Collaborative Research Centre 294 "Structural Change of Property". (19.-20.10.2022)
- Eduardo Relly (2022): American Society for Environmental History 2022 Conference. The Guarani Environment between Brazil and Paraguay: Historical displacements, Agribusiness and the political (historical) ecology of the Nagoya Protocol. Eugene, Oregon, USA, "Indigenous environmental histories”, panel orgaisation with Daniel Dumas and Scott Doebler.
- Workshop of the subprojects JRT 03 and C02 “Propertisierung – Kommodifizierung – Kommerzialisierung. Kritische Perspektiven auf Reproduktionsökonomien und Bioökonomie” with a keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Sarah Franklin (University of Cambridge). (14. - 15.10.2021)
