Biotecnologia e biodiversidade genética: uma história informacional da natureza até o Protocolo de Nagoya (2010)

Eduardo Relly

doi:10.5007/2175-7976.2024.e100078

Authors

Eduardo Relly Friedrich Schiller University Jena https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5196-7332

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2024.e100078

Keywords:

Access and benefit sharing, Genetic biodiversity, Biotechnology

Abstract

The development of biotechnology in the 20th and 21st century has promoted the information of nature as a source of value, while the materiality of natural beings or genetic information carriers has lost importance. In this sense, the genetic manipulation of nature through its conversion into genetic resources has given rise to new ontologies and ways of relating to the natural world. The idea of biodiversity involves the concept of genetic biodiversity, opening up new horizons for the capitalist appropriation of nature. In this sense, reactions to the informational project of nature come together in an ambivalent way in the compensatory mechanism of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), enshrined in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol (2010). The conflicts between the informational and material nature have a major impact on indigenous knowledge, since most of the world's biodiversity is unknown to modern science and indigenous cultures stewards most biodiversity in the planet. This paper aims to debate the origin of the ABS mechanism, its relationship with genetic biodiversity, as well as to analyse how it has legitimized the conception of an informational view of nature that negatively affects traditional peoples and communities. It is also a proposal for a scientific and environmental history of biodiversity.

Author Biography

Eduardo Relly, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Doutor pela Freie Universität Berlin (2015-2019) junto ao Lateinamerika-Institut, com subsídio do CAPES/DAAD. Atualmente, é pesquisador e docente na Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena junto ao projeto colaborativo "Structural Changes of Property", financiado pela Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2021-2024). Antes disso, concluiu seu Pós-Doutorado pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2019-2020) com bolsa de pesquisa da CAPES.

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