FTA: Amazon, indigenous peoples and biodiversity
This article focuses on the problems stemming from the free trade agreements and their consequences on Indigenous peoples. Three issues are analyzed: the dispute over the control of biodiversity, the Rights of Indigenous peoples, and the construction of a debate agenda. The author posits that the US...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar |
| Repositorio: | Revista Comentario Internacional |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/155 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/comentario/article/view/155 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Biodiversidad pueblos indígenas autodeterminación conocimientos tradicionales territorios propiedad intelectual. Biodiversity indigenous peoples self-determination traditional knowledges territories intelectual property |
| Sumario: | This article focuses on the problems stemming from the free trade agreements and their consequences on Indigenous peoples. Three issues are analyzed: the dispute over the control of biodiversity, the Rights of Indigenous peoples, and the construction of a debate agenda. The author posits that the US free trade agreements are part of a hegemonic politics which is based on the establishment of a global order and the control of energy sources. In this context the Amazon Basin appears as one of the most interesting areas for the transnationalization of capital. |
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