Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2752051/land_and_seed_laws_under_attack_as_africa_is_groomed_for_corporate_recolonization.html
Date Written:  2015-02-12
Publisher:  The Ecologist
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17320

Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing millions of small cultivators and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties.

Subject Headings

• African Agriculture
• Agricultural Business/Agribusiness
• Agricultural Industries
• Agriculture/Food Policy
• Corporate Agenda
• Industrial Agriculture
• Seed & Grain Technology
• Seeds