Markets of biodiversity and equity in trade: An illusion?

The Convention on Biological Diversity, adopted at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit of 1992, bore the objective of providing a legal and political framework for the conservation of biodiversity. In order to assess how these recommendations have been put into practice over the past 15 years, a team of scientists from the IRD and other research organizations has conducted a review aiming to analyse the strategies, practices and representations of the different participants in the trade of living resources.