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A benefit sharing agreement for the commercialisation of Chilean plants in the UKBenefit Sharing Agreement • August 31st, 2007
In 2002 the International Conifer Conservation Programme (ICCP) based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) was awarded a three year grant from the Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species to collaborate with the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh) on a project entitled “The integration of ex situ and in situ conservation of threatened Chilean rainforest species”. Part of this project was to put in place a Benefit Sharing Agreement for the commercialisation of Chilean plants in the UK. This paper briefly discusses the process of obtaining such an agreement and the potential of securing funding for plant conservation from commercialising novel Chilean plants. This initiative specifically addresses Article One of the CBD - the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilisation of genetic resources
