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Social equity versus private property: striking the right balance

Ehsan Masood

Nowhere do the rhetoric and the reality facing bioprospecting come into sharper conflict than in attempts by developing countries to bridge their international commitments to two separate agreements. These agreements are the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which came into effect in 1995.