Ratified by more than 90 countries, the Nagoya Protocol is an international agreement ensuring that Indigenous communities are compensated when their agricultural resources and knowledge of wild plants and animals are utilized by agricultural corporations. However, the protocol has shortcomings. For example, it allows corporations to insist that their agreements with communities to conduct research on the commercial uses of the communities’ resources and knowledge remain confidential. Therefore, some Indigenous advocates express concern that the protocol may have the unintended effect of____.

Which option most logically completes the paragraph?

The main idea of the passage is analyzed and interpreted.

The facts and details are analyzed and interpreted from the given passage.

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

Choice A is incorrect because it it does not logically follow from the information provided in the paragraph.

reducing the reward corporations can get from their domestic contracts.

Choice B is incorrect because of it does not logically follow from the information given in the paragraph. The paragraph discusses how the Nagoya Protocol allows enterprises to keep agreements with Indigenous communities confidential, which raises concerns among Indigenous advocates.

limiting research on Indigenous resources by corporations that have signed treaties.

Choice C is correct because it directly addresses the issue raised by the confidentiality clause allowed by the Nagoya Protocol.

preventing independent observers from determining whether the agreements guarantee equitable compensation for Indigenous communities.

Choice D is incorrect because it does not logically follow from the given context about the Nagoya Protocol and the specific concerns mentioned.

discouraging Indigenous communities from learning new methods for harvesting plants and animals from their corporate partners.

Correct sentence

Preventing independent observers from determining whether the agreements guarantee equitable compensation for Indigenous communities.

Option

C

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?