SCIENTISTS URGE GOVERNMENT FOR STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS IN PERU NEXT MONTH TO SAFEGUARD INDIA'S SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OVER GENETIC RESOURCES

Seeking government's intervention at multilateral forum to protect India's sovereign rights over its genetic resources, a group of scientists/experts on Wednesday wrote to Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan urging him to mobilise the Global South to jointly demand a "fair and equitable" share of profits earned by users of genetic resources in the technology-rich Global North.

They sought India's leadership role at the upcoming 11th governing body meeting of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) in Peru next month.

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