The EPO and the industry are destroying the basis of European plant breeding by granting these kinds of patents. Access to conventionally bred plant varieties has never been so severely restricted by ...
The European Patent Office (EPO) today rejected an opposition against a patent held by the company, KWS, on cold-tolerant maize (EP 3380618). The international coalition of No Patents on Seeds! filed ...
ETC Group released a very useful 48-page report, “Who Owns Nature?” on corporate concentration in commercial food, farming, health, and the strategic push to commodify the planet's remaining natural ...
Just four years after its first “harvest” of GM Atlantic salmon in Canada, the US biotechnology company AquaBounty is selling its on-land GM fish factory at Rollo Bay, Prince Edward Island, Canada.(1) ...