Biodiversity and poverty reduction: Who controls the seeds?

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

In many developing countries, the right of farmers to use and exchange farm-saved seed is a form of life insurance. Ensuring that farmers have this right is an important means of alleviating poverty and is crucial to maintaining crop genetic diversity throughout the world.

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