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GBDI provides policymakers and executives with access to a unique pool of our professional consultants. To conduct training and consultations. GBDI uses the world's best, most diverse and most knowledgeable professionals in the fields of biodiversity conservation, bioprospecting, biotechnology, and law (e.g., intellectual property rights and trade regimes) to teach its courses.
These world-renowned professionals, who come from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the United States, provide training and consultation in such key areas as:
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- Strategies for bioresource development
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- International trade development
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- Intellectual property rights
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- Compliance with the TRIPS agreement of the World Trade Organization, and
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- Community-based delivery systems.
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GBDI's training and consultations are always customized to meet local social, cultural and political needs. GBDI works with public- and private-sector organizations in the bioscience sector to ensure that their efforts:
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- Fit long-term strategic assets and goals of countries and surrounding regions.
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- Meet long-term environmental needs, and
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- Comply with emerging global standards for intellectual property rights.
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GBDI's roster of professional consultants consists of scientists (private and public sectors), lawyers (private & public sectors), economists, and institutional building experts from leading institutions and private-sector firms.
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