Conhecimentos tradicionais indígenas: a biopirataria no Brasil frente ao processo de globalização

Abstract

This work analyses the relationship between the Portuguese and the Indians soon after the discovery of Brazil. Many atrocities were committed against indigenous peoples, annihilating their social organization, their culture and ending with the lives of thousands of Indians. The Indians are familiar deep Brazilian biodiversity, and have always lived in harmony with nature. But that rich biodiversity is danger, at last their legal protection, both in Brazil and in other countries, is still in the process of creation. As is also the danger indigenous traditional knowledge, biopiracy in front of a law of patents than those acknowledges, making impossible their record, are the mercy of multinational corporations which, disregarding the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Provisional Measure 2.186-16-2001 , appropriate the knowledge of these people without the permission and without making a fair distribution of its benefits. In front of these, it is necessary to create a legal regime differentiated, sui generis, created from the reality of each nation and with the participation of the same, as a mechanism of protection for the effectiveness of respect for indigenous people, guaranteeing them the exclusive use of their lands, the preservation of their knowledge, their identity, their culture and consequent sustainability, especially against the hegemonic process of globalization and the effects of biopiracy. Looking to indigenous peoples and traditional communities and recognize them as potential supporters of biological diversity is a way for that new politics are implemented in seeking to ensure a future with sustainable bases for these people and for all humanity.