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Vandana Shiva: Intellectual Property

Leading environmental and human rights activist Vandana Shiva speaks about the WTO’s intellectual property rights (TRIPS) that allow (and in some cases enforce) the corporate take-over of local subsistence farmers, replacing ancient methods of farming with genetically modified seed stock that requires expensive pesticides. As a result over 200,000 farmers have committed suicide since [...]

Vandana Shiva on TRIPS

Leading environmental and human rights activist, Vandana Shiva, speaks about the WTO’s intellectual property rights (TRIPS) that allow (and in some cases enforce) the corporate take-over of local subsistence farmers, replacing ancient methods of farming with genetically modified seed stock that requires expensive pesticides. As a result over 200,000 farmers have committed suicide since [...]