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Intellectual property rights protecting peasant/native seeds?


-Restrictions on the harvesting and re-sowing of own seeds (must meet certain requirements)

-Unlike most other countries, seeds can be sold in US without being certified.  This encourages the development of non-hybrid varieties by non-corporate farmers, but because of the aggressive intellectual property environment there is not way to easily distribute these seeds without risking them being patented by others

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