Using automated patent landscaping and legal geography analysis to spot biopiracy activities in the island of Hispaniola

Forestal, Roberto Louis

doi:10.1016/j.wpi.2023.102174

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“…Furthermore, if the market fails then there is both no food produced, and no way to access an income (Kirigia et The first ABS agreement in the ornamental plant sector, between the South African National Biodiversity Institute and a US horticultural company in 1999, highlighted the complexities of this process, particularly in ensuring adequate benefits to the source country of plant material (CBD, nd). A lack of consideration of ABS in the sector has led to issues with alleged biopiracy, and a loss of natural resources for low-income countries (Forestal 2023; Wynberg 2023). More recently, specific risks from hybridisation have been highlighted for some invasive species, with potential for both biodiversity loss but also for acquiring significant new traits, such as the hybridization and adaptive introgression from the introduced invasive Helicoverpa armigera moths in Brazil of a single region that included the invasive insecticide resistance allele in the native agricultural pest Helicoverpa zea (Valencia-Montoya et al 2020).…”

Section: Impact On Water Access and Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The true cost of the global ornamental plant trade

Hinsley,

Hughes,

van Vankelburg

et al. 2023

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The multi-billion dollar ornamental plant trade benefits economies worldwide but shifting and more streamlined globalised supply chains have exacerbated complex environmental, sustainability, and biosecurity risks. We review environmental and social costs of this international legal trade, and complement this with analyses of illegal plant trade seizures and plant contaminant interception data from the Netherlands and the UK. We show global increases in ornamental plant trade, with notable supply expansions in East Africa and South America and issues including biodiversity loss, aquifer depletion, pollution, and undermining of access-and-benefit-sharing and food security. Despite risk mitigation, interception data showed considerable volumes of contaminants in ornamental plant shipments, yet taxonomic identification was not always possible, highlighting uncertainties in assessing biosecurity risks. With high-volume and fast-moving transit of ornamental plants around the world, it is essential that standards are improved, and data on specific risks from trade are collected and shared to allow for mitigation.

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Section: Impact On Water Access and Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%