Acceso a los recursos genéticos y conocimientos tradicionales en México, el caso del maíz olotón

Abstract

This article seeks to expose a practical case in which a benefit-sharing agreement between a transnational company and a local community, acts as a mechanism for the appropriation of genetic resources and traditional knowledge whose technical application can generate economic benefits that are not passed on to the people, despite the existence of international legal agreements that safeguard the transmission of natural goods. For this reason, this text exposes the questionable apparatus of protection of biological and cultural diversity that belongs to individuals who are part of communities that have worked with and know biological elements, such as the case of olotón corn, and describes the result of the process of assigning benefits.