Patenting the “Climate Genes” and Capturing the Climate Agenda

ETC Communique May/June 2008 Issue # 99 Issue: The world’s largest seed and agrochemical corporations are stockpiling hundreds of monopoly patents on genes in plants that the companies will market as crops genetically engineered to withstand environmental stresses such as drought, heat, cold, floods, saline soils, and more. BASF, Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta, Dupont and biotech […]

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