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Vandana Shiva and the struggle to take back control of seeds

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Green Left

Publication Date
2017-12-01

Crop varieties have been selected and reproduced over thousands of years by farmers, creating great diversity. India, for example, used to have 200,000 varieties of rice. Seeds were kept each year for replanting and exchanging in what was a free or low-cost system for many farmers.

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/vandana-shiva-and-struggle-take-back-control-seeds