From: THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER

November 15, 2004, Issue #380

Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness

>From a Public Interest Perspective

EDITOR\PUBLISHER; A.V. Krebs

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IRAQI FARMERS FARM-SAVED SEED AND FREE INNOVATION TRADITION

NOW RULED ILLEGAL UNDER NEW CORPORATE FRIENDLY PATENTING LAW

FOCUS ON THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND GRAIN, COALITION AGAINST BAYER, CBG NETWORK: 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.

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