Chapter 10
The Revised Bangui Agreement andPlant Variety Protection in OAPICountries
INTRODUCTION
Since the dawn of history, local communities have been using biological resources to cater for such daily needs as food, traditional medicine, housing or cosmetics. In Africa, these biological resources have been managed by village communities for many centuries. Thus seeds and medicinal plants are exchanged among peasants and traditional healers within and between communities, the main concern being to meet the daily requirements for survival. In this situation, the food supply of the greater part of the population is produced by traditional, family-based farming methods, despite many difficulties. Seeds, for instance, are ...
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