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Bringing access and benefit sharing into the digital age

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Reading and writing DNA is now possible with an unprecedented speed and ease. Until recently, the global political and legal instruments regulating genetic resources globally exclusively focused on access to physical genetic resources without considering possible consequences of their digitization. Following significant tensions in the various international forums addressing access and benefit sharing of genetic resources, we advocate here a new Multi-stakeholder Committee on the Governance of Digital Sequence Information, dedicated to solving governance issues associated with digitization of genetic resources. This body will constitute a transversal and inclusive tool that will facilitate long-term coherence in all policy sectors dealing with genetic resources.

Source: Plants People Planet

DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.10186

Authors: Sylvain Aubry, Christine Frison, Jorge C. Medaglia, Emile Frison, Marcel Jaspars, Muriel Rabone, Aysegul Sirakaya, Devanshi Saxena, Esther van Zimmeren

Institutions: University of Zurich, Federal Office for Agriculture, University of Antwerp, UCLouvain, Universidad de Costa Rica, Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT, University of Aberdeen, Natural History Museum, Ghent University

Language: English

Topic: International Maritime Law Issues

Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,500

Funders: National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Vlaamse regering

Awards: Diversity and evolution of the PAO/phyllobilin pathway of chlorophyll breakdown, Governing Seeds as a Commons for Food Security: A Normative Shift from Appropriation to Sharing

OpenAlex ID: W3133056092

FWCI: 3.927

Cites: 34

Cited by: 36

Related to: 10