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Iraq's new patent law: A declaration of war against farmers
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Nov 18, 2004 12:36pm |
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| Category | General |
| News Date | Thursday, November 18, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | For generations, small farmers in Iraq operated in an essentially unregulated, informal seed supply system. Farm-saved seed and the free innovation with and exchange of planting materials among farming communities has long been the basis of agricultural practice. This has been made illegal under the new law. The seeds farmers are now allowed to plant - "protected" crop varieties brought into Iraq by transnational corporations in the name of agricultural reconstruction - will be the property of the corporations. |
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