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Patent Grab Threatens Biodiversity, Food Control

The world's largest agri-corporations are pressuring governments to allow what could become the broadest patent claims in intellectual property history, experts warn.

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Maize being grown at Huambo's Agricultural Institute in Angola.

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Jean-Paul Remanoby is widely regarded as the best farmer in Anjanavelo, Madagascar.

Africa: Patent Grab Threatens Biodiversity and Food Sovereignty

Fahamu, 11 November 2010

Hope Shand unpacks the findings of ETC Group's new report into patent claims on 'genes, plants and technologies that will supposedly allow biotech crops to tolerate drought and… Read more »
Kenya: State Needs to Enforce Laws to End Runaway Biopiracy

Business Daily, 4 October 2010

Kenya is a country endowed with a wealth of ecological bio-diversity and natural resources. Read more »
Africa: South Still Battling to Stop North's Biopiracy

IPS, 7 September 2010

The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issue of… Read more »
Kenya: Africa Should Stop Being a Cry Baby And Tackle Biopiracy Wave Head-On

Nation, 4 November 2010

If Vasco da Gama were to conduct his iconic explorations, in which he carried home thousands of plant and animal species from Africa, in the present age, they would not serve to… Read more »
Africa: Of Infraredd And Inforedd

Fahamu, 7 October 2010

Mapping technologies make it easier to collect data on biodiversity, making biopiracy easier and taking intellectual property out of the hands of indigenous communities. 'New forms… Read more »

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