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Seed monopolies: Who controls the world′s food supply? | Global Ideas | DW

Seed monopolies: Who controls the world s food supply? Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant. More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic nature of a seed the capacity to reproduce itself prevented it from being easily commodified. Grown and resown by farmers, seeds were freely exchanged and shared.  All that changed in the 1990s when laws were introduced to protect new bioengineered crops. Today, four corporations Bayer, Corteva, ChemChina and Limagrain control more than 50% of the world s seeds. These staggering monopolies dominate the global food supply.  

Seed monopolies: Who controls the world s food supply?

news Seed monopolies: Who controls the world s food supply? dw.com 3 hrs ago Charli Shield Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant. © Frank May/dpa/picture alliance More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic nature of a seed the capacity to reproduce itself prevented it from being easily commodified. Grown and resown by farmers, seeds were freely exchanged and shared.

Former Singapore minister George Yeo noticed by ISD

- Advertisement - In his younger days, former Singapore minister George Yeo came to the notice of the Internal Security Department (ISD), Singapore’s domestic intelligence agency, partly due to his association with the late Malaysian civil society activist Martin Khor, he disclosed in his Facebook post on April 1. On Facebook, the 66-year-old Yeo described his time as an undergraduate at Cambridge University with Martin Khor: “Martin became like an elder brother to me in Cambridge. Through him I was introduced to Marx, Lenin, Mao and the Communist Manifesto. In my second and third year, after Martin had left, I became a student leader in the Cambridge University Malaysia Singapore Association. Martin was my first political mentor. Partly as a result of his influence, I came to the notice of Singapore’s Internal Security Department.”

COVID-19: Vaccine delay in Britain stirs equity debate in India

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