Owning Seeds, Accessing Food
A human rights impact assessment of plant variety protection
Factsheet Public Eye (formerly BD), 2015
The expansion of intellectual property rights on seeds might well restrict small-scale farmers’ practices of seed saving and exchange in the informal seed system, thus limiting access to protected seeds and putting farmers’ right to food at risk. A pioneering report presented those findings in October 2014. This factsheet illustrates the report's findings in a nutshell.