ETC's reports and articles

Plant Breeders Wrongs
An inquiry into potential for plant piracy through international intellectual propery Conventions A report by RAFI, in partnership with Heritage Seed Curators Australia (HSCA) 25 Aug 1998
And Now... the Verminator!
Fat Cat Corp. with Fat Rat gene can Kill Crops 23 Aug 1998
Grameen Bank and the Monster
5 Aug 1998
Volume 5, #3 RAFI Impacts: The Terminator File
2 Aug 1998
Seed Industry Consolidation: Who Owns Whom?
RAFI's Seed Industry Consolidation Chart 31 Jul 1998
Grameen Turns Mean?
From poverty-fighter to the peasants Pinkerton Is Bangladesh's fabled Grameen Bank turning mean with its Monsanto deal...or is the "Monster" turning farmer philanthropist? 6 Jul 1998
Volume 5, #2 Repeat the Term:
Governments at FAO's Gene Commission fail to make the grade on Farmers' Rights and Benefit Sharing 30 Jun 1998
Volume 5, #1 Terminator Trends:
The 'Silent Spring' of Farmers' Rights - Seed Saving, the Public Sector, and Terminator Transnationals 29 Jun 1998
Icelanders Put deCODE Genetics and Roche on Ice
Corporate Gene Hunters' Bid for Monopoly on Icelanders' DNA put on Hold 15 Jun 1998
American Home "Monster"?
Implications of the Monsanto / American Home Products Merger 10 Jun 1998
Biotech Activists Oppose the Terminator Technology
New Patent Aims to Prevent Farmers from Saving Seed 29 May 1998
RAFI Takes Terminator to COP IV in Bratislava... and COP IV Responds
29 May 1998
RAFI Launches Postcard Campaign to Oppose Basmati Rice Patent
Thousands Drop A Line to the Prince Urging Him to Drop the Patent 21 May 1998
Quinoa Patent Dropped
Andean Farmers Defeat U.S. University 21 May 1998
Inter-American Foundation Strays into an Intellectual Property Minefield
14 May 1998

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