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RAFI's Seed Industry Consolidation Chart
From poverty-fighter to the peasants Pinkerton Is Bangladesh's fabled Grameen Bank turning mean with its Monsanto deal...or is the "Monster" turning farmer philanthropist?
Governments at FAO's Gene Commission fail to make the grade on Farmers' Rights and Benefit Sharing
The 'Silent Spring' of Farmers' Rights - Seed Saving, the Public Sector, and Terminator Transnationals
Corporate Gene Hunters' Bid for Monopoly on Icelanders' DNA put on Hold
Implications of the Monsanto / American Home Products Merger
New Patent Aims to Prevent Farmers from Saving Seed
RAFI's postcard campaign to fight a patent laying claim to Asia's famous aromatic Basmati rice
Andean Farmers Defeat U.S. University
Thousands Drop A Line to the Prince Urging Him to Drop the Patent
The Terminator technology that sterilizes seed also threatens the food security of 1.4 billion people and must be terminated
New Genetic Technology Aims to Prevent Farmers from Saving Seed
Its Now or Never for Agricultural Biodiversity in Bratislava
The (Merchant) Prince and the (Punjabi) Paupers
UN FAO, CGIAR Move to Defend Farmers' Rights, Crop Germplasm; Call for Plant "Patent" Moratorium on CG Seeds
International Confusion, Anger Greet Australian Kleptomania of Farmers' Plant Varieties from other Countries.
Allows Australians to "Patent" Plants Supposedly Held in Trust for Farmers
But many questions remain ... and the fate of 26 other claims are in doubt
UPOV Buries it Head; PBR Moratorium Page
Or, how to "invent" a chickpea without really trying
Material de Apoyo sobre Conocimiento Local, Biodiversidad y Propiedad Intelectual
An independent study prepared by RAFI, now ETC group, for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
The global enterprises that dominate commercial agriculture, food and health