GM Improved and patented seed with Technology Use Agreement. The seed must be purchased every year.
{"Image DocumentName": "GM Improved and patented seed with Technology Use Agreement. The seed must be purchased every year.", "Image ImageDescription": "TNCs control the entire life system - profits beyond the seed, e.g. tying farmers to use of specific pesticides. US and Europe \u2013 different stance on GM. Issues around intellectual property rights : property rights created by law over inventions of the mind; an official license for applicant to the exclusion of others from the government over economic rights over their creation for a fixed period. Multinational organisations, biotechnology companies are set to benefit at the loss of biodiversity, threatened, for example, by the pesticides. Litigation: agro-biotech companies exert unprecedented control over farmers to use patented seeds (see Monsanto Canada Inc vs Schmeiser, for example:  Development largely through private sector with profit incentive, impeding the kind of accessibility for LEDC farmers that public sector or public-private partnership could open up. Profit focus on industrialised world and designed for industrialised planting situations. Greater variety and number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) opposing GM or aspects of GM are more prominent than during Green Revolution. Note to teachers: It will be important to make sure that students are absolutely clear about the difference between the green revolution and GM. The Examiners Reports highlights students often confuse these.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}