Biopiracy of fair participation in the benefits derived from the use of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge of Rural-Indigenous Communities in Global South Countries

Abstract

The "Seed Law" (See Annex I), promoted by the agribusiness industry specialized in transgenic technology (Bayer-Monsanto, Corteva, Syngenta ...), supposes the institution of a "social soy tariff" for small producers and the royalty payment for intellectual property rights on modified seeds for the rest. Later, with the sanction of the law, the loss of biological diversity due to the maximization of soybean monoculture - leading to a radical reprimarization of the economy dependent on neocolonial forms of domination in the 21st century - is extended, as well as monopolization centered on agribusiness multinationals founded on extractivism that, without further ado, plunder the fertility of the land concentrated in "sowing pools", thanks to an incessant process of commodification of agriculture.