ABSTRACT
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 1992a) resulted in the formalization of the relationship between scientists and traditional people, concerning access to biodiversity and associated traditional knowledge (ATK). For scientists, access to biodiversity includes two basic components:
access to natural or agricultural biodiversity, which includes collecting samples of animals, plants or other organisms;
access to traditional knowledge associated with that biodiversity at all levels (i.e. from genetic diversity up to landscape level, using sampling tools such as interviews, for example).
