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The Big Businesses Encouraging Biodiversity

How beauty and pharmaceutical companies are working with people in developing communities

A discussion on the partnerships between Western pharmaceutical and beauty companies, and people in developing countries.

Tony Bus, Head of Natural Product Discovery at Glaxo talks about compensation payments and in developing countries to encourage preservation of natural resources.

Also on the programme: The Body Shop's partnership with Kayapo people in Brazil; landfill and the uses of waste such as activated carbon; and locking toxic substances in concrete.

Presented by Julian Coleman

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14 minutes

麻豆社 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project