FTA: Amazon, indigenous peoples and biodiversity

This article focuses on the problems stemming from the free trade agreements and their consequences on Indigenous peoples. Three issues are analyzed: the dispute over the control of biodiversity, the Rights of Indigenous peoples, and the construction of a debate agenda. The author posits that the US free trade agreements are part of a hegemonic politics which is based on the establishment of a global order and the control of energy sources. In this context the Amazon Basin appears as one of the most interesting areas for the transnationalization of capital.

• Autor principal: Ortiz Tirado, Pablo (author)
• Format: article
• Idioma: spa
• Publicat: 2016
• Matèries: Biodiversidad; pueblos indígenas; autodeterminación; conocimientos tradicionales; territorios; propiedad intelectual.; Biodiversity; indigenous peoples; self-determination; traditional knowledges; territories; intelectual property
• Accés en línia: https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/comentario/article/view/155