http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-seeks-to-develop-global-seed-power-1427049765
For two decades, foreign seed majors have beaten a path to China, lured by a market so big that it is projected to eclipse the U.S. as the world’s largest food consumer by 2018, according to the Association of Food Industries.
Will China open its market to Monsanto and Dupont?
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Should common heritage plants be able to be privatised?
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We need to stop Australia’s genetic heritage from being taken overseas
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seeds on common ground with Pope Francis
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Barack Obama seeks to sow seeds on common ground with Pope FrancisOn Thursday Pope Francis met a man who...
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free seeds to share for ever
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The practice of sharing seeds as as old as humanity. Now branded a grand Open Source, the seeds are...