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Seed monopolies: Who controls the world s food supply?
dw.com
3 hrs ago
Charli Shield
Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant.
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More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations
For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic nature of a seed the capacity to reproduce itself prevented it from being easily commodified. Grown and resown by farmers, seeds were freely exchanged and shared. ....

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