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***Life or death over seeds – worldwide seed war rages***

Over half the global seed market is controlled (http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15762) by 3 agrochemical corporations (Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta) and new legislation is threatening to criminalise the ability of farmers to freely save and exchange seeds.

For example, Ghana is passing a new seed law because of pressure from rich governments, including that of the UK, and big corporations (see item 2 below). The new law, if passed, will restrict small-scale farmers and food producers from freely saving, exchanging and selling seeds. This will sideline traditional varieties and push farmers towards buying seeds from big business like Monsanto year after year. And small-scale farmers could even face criminalisation for saving seeds that corporations lay claim to.


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