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Vibha Varshney
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Consulting Editor, Down To Earth
Delhi
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Covers: Caste, Mental health Politics, Disability Law, Social Justice Queer, Social Sciences
Blockchain
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By Vibha Varshney Verified| Down To Earth Verified Everyone who thought that the COP16 in Cali, Colombia, would be the game changer on the issue of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is in for disappointment. Two meetings held in April prove this. At the CBD or Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP16, a multilateral mechanism for sharing benefits earned from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources was put in place. The Cali Fund was established to receive and disburse funds.
Plant treaty: Proposed amendments being discussed over the week could dilute benefit-sharing provisions
By Vibha Varshney Verified| Down To Earth Verified The Parties to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) — also known as the Plant treaty — are gathered in Rome with a controversial agenda on the table. At the thirteenth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System (MLS), which began on April 1, 2025, Parties will discuss a plan that could dilute the treaty’s benefit-sharing provisions by freeing access to genetic resources.
By Vibha Varshney Verified| Down To Earth Verified Everyone who thought that the COP16 in Cali, Colombia, would be the game changer on the issue of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is in for disappointment. Two meetings held in April prove this. At the CBD or Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP16, a multilateral mechanism for sharing benefits earned from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources was put in place. The Cali Fund was established to receive and disburse funds.
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Down To Earth
When you join Down to Earth, you join more than a local company. You join a great team that has been making a positive contribution to our community and our planet since 1977. It all began when a group of friends in Wailuku, Maui, turned their enthusiasm and passion for organic and natural foods and their vegetarian values into a great store that has become one of Hawaii's leading providers of local, fresh, organic and natural products.
National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
+1 808-947-3249
Founded: 1977