Laws protecting industrial seeds South Africa

Draft Regional Policy and Legal Framework for Plant Variety Protection

It is also a mechanism designed to coerce African countries into joining UPOV 1991, a restrictive and inflexible legal regime that grants extremely strong intellectual property rights to commercial breeders and undermines farmers’ rights.

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