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Which choice most logically completes the text? 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 ut ilized by agricultural corporations. However, the protocol has shortcomings. For example, it allows corporations to insist that their agreements with communitie s 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 ______blank