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Intellectual property rights protecting peasant/native seeds?


-Farmers may keep own seeds, but may not gift/exchange/sell them

-Local seeds may not be privatized if “discovered”

-Protests and strikes over the planting of GMO maize on commercial scale, threatening local maize varieties

-Peasant and indigenous communities defending maize through community agreements in local assemblies, which serve as forums for community discussion and organization

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