Intellectual property rights on seeds: origen and transcendence
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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on seeds and propagation plant materials have benefit mainly to transnational companies, those sell seeds jointly with agricultural chemical products, and have injured to farmers imposing cultivation forms that conduce to homogeneity and centralization of agriculture, in detriment of the conservation of traditional varieties and biological diversity. In the IPR protection system, transgenic seeds occupy a principal roll and they have developed a polemic regarding the damages that they can represent for the contamination of traditional varieties with transgenic ADN and to the roll that they could play in the solution of the feeding problems in the neediest countries. At present, the experience in relation to the IPR practice indicates that they have established an increasing control on seed production for transnational companies and they constitute a control instrument for food production at worldwide level.
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