"Modern foods, medicines and textiles depend on millennia of selective breeding by Indigenous peoples, generating species with useful genetic properties - but these efforts have been mostly uncompensated ( C. Lawson et al. J. Intellect. Prop. Law Pract. 19, 337-357; 2024). In late 2024, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity established the Cali Fund to accept voluntary corporate payments for use of genetic information."
"Modern foods, medicines and textiles depend on millennia of selective breeding by Indigenous peoples, generating species with useful genetic properties - but these efforts have been mostly uncompensated ( C. Lawson et al. J. Intellect. Prop. Law Pract. 19, 337-357; 2024). In late 2024, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity established the Cali Fund to accept voluntary corporate payments for use of genetic information. This fund would support biodiversity and pay Indigenous peoples for their contributions. It remains empty."
Indigenous peoples developed crops, fibres and other domesticated species through millennia of selective breeding, producing genetic traits crucial to contemporary foods, medicines and textiles. The genetic properties of these domesticated species underpin many modern products and research efforts. Most instances of Indigenous-led breeding and stewardship have not resulted in financial compensation or formal benefit-sharing. In late 2024, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity created the Cali Fund to receive voluntary corporate payments linked to use of genetic information. The fund is intended to support biodiversity conservation and deliver payments to Indigenous communities for their contributions, but it currently contains no funds.
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