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FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Strategies and regulations pertaining to access to genetic resources

Tildelt: kr 2,4 mill.

The aim of the project is to develop a basis for a national and international regulation of access aquatic genetic resources for breeding and equitable sharing of the benefits rising from such use. By combining law, biology, and political science, the pr oject will aquire systematic knowledge on the effects of corporate strategies and international and national regulations. The interdiciplinarity will allow for an understanding of the specific features of aquatic genetic resources that influence the scop e and effects of legal regulation. The analysis will be based on case studies of germplasm use in aquaculture, drawn from the angle of utilisation of salmon germplasm within Norway. To narrow down this large field of inquiry, the case study will primarily limit its scope to examine two as pects: i)access from the “wild” (bioprospecting) and ii) access and exchange between breeders. Main research questions are i) how property rights to germplasm affect access to germplasm, including access for small-scale breeders? and ii) how users and pr oviders of salmon germplasm perceive that equity issues are affected by rights to the propagating material and what are their strategies with a view to this policy situation?

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