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Trade Deals Used To Enforce Strict Seed Patents, Threatening Farmers’ Rights: Report
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BW Online Bureau / 4 hours
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Report says that free trade agreements are reshaping global agriculture by enforcing restrictive seed patent laws, eroding farmers’ seed rights and concentrating control in corporate hands A report by Grain has warned that powerful economies are increasingly using free trade agreements to impose restrictive intellectual property rules on seeds, undermining farmers’ rights and tightening corporate […]