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MOVEMENT TO STOP THE GENOCIDE OF FARMERS
Seed Act which will destroy farmers varieties and farmers rights and make farmers totally dependent on unreliable GM seeds from corporations like Monsanto. Dr ... to stop the genocide of our farmers and reclaim our food sovereingy. The participating organizations are Vidharba Organic Farmers Association, Maharasthra Organic Farmers Association, Andhra Pradesh Rytu Sangham, ...
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International Undertaking
... to achieve a balance between the products of biotechnology (commercial varieties and breeders' lines) on the one hand, and farmers' varieties and wild material on the other, and between the interests of developed and developing countries, by balancing the rights of breeders (formal innovators) and farmers (informal innovators ...
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Indian Farmers Are Not Pirates -Monsanto Is A Polluter
Monsanto’s Bt. cotton varieties were still at illegal trial stage. Pallab Ghosh’s claim that the farmers of Gujarat are producing pirated seed by cross-fertilizing ... leader of the Gujarat farmers, Lalshankar Upadhyay, is pressing the state government to legalise seed piracy. As far as he is concerned, farmers have been creating their own varieties to suit their needs ...
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The Privatisation of Biodiversity and Biodiversity Related Knowledge
Patents allow the usurpation of indigenous knowledge as a western invention through minor tinkering or trivial translation. The UPOV (Union for the Protection of New Varieties ... breeding from the fields of Indian farmers, while the farmers have to pay royalties to the seed industry for the varieties derived from farmers' varieties. Neither traditional knowledge nor biodiversity can ...
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IPR ALERT on Plant Variety Law
[Clause 31] The Bill openly promotes piracy of farmers' varieties such as Basmati, by failure to register and protect farmers' varieties, which account for 80% of the seed used in the country. (Clauses 11 & 12) Failure to recognise farmers as ...
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SAVE Foundation (Safeguard for Agricultural Varieties in Europe)
In the same way, the landscape bears the distinct imprint of farmers' widely varying ... and historically valuable, human-imprinted biodiversity. Numerous agricultural animal breeds and plant varieties possessing genetic potential worthy of conservation as well as many regional locations ...
www.save-foundation.net

Scientific studies from India, China and the United States now back up what farmers have found for years, that Bt crops often
ISIS members’ website. Details here Farmers were first Scientific studies from many countries have now backed up what farmers have known for years, that Bt crops – genetically engineered ... , Bollgard-RCH-134, Bollgard-RCH-138 and Bollgard-RCH-144. All the varieties were created by using Indian parent-varieties to which the crylAc gene was introduced from the Bt-cotton variety ...
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Corporate Patents vs People in GM Rice
US breeders had acquired samples from Philippines-based IRRI (International Rice Research Institute), which holds a large seed bank of Asian farmers’ varieties. That was among the first warnings of a corporate agenda to usurp and control rice varieties created and used by local communities for ...
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IELRC.ORG - The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
Secondly, plant breeders' rights ... use of the protected variety for the purpose of breeding other varieties and the right to commercialise such other varieties. The 1991 version of the Convention, by strengthening plant breeders ...
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CATALYSTS TO GROWTH- farmers' markets as a stimulus for economic development
Greenpaper Catalysts for Growth: farmers markets as a stimulus for economic development Executive Summary The Crescent City Farmers Market, like farmers’ ... be available. They also acknowledge growers’ willingness to respond to their suggestions about varieties of fruits and vegetables to produce. A less tangible benefit deriving from the ...
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