[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • May 12, 2000
    "The Green Revolution clearly demonstrated the hazards of allowing agribusiness to dictate development policy and control agriculture. Like the Green Revolution, biotechnology promises great benefits at nearly no cost, but threatens to increase inequalities and reduce the autonomy of farmers. Biotech firms and pharmaceutical companies are identifying and then patenting indigenous knowledge and Southern biodata: this 'ownership' of information appropriates what was previously common knowledge and turns it the private property of an elite. Particularly preposterous is ownership of genetic code and the uncompensated appropriation of seed varieties from the locals who have developed them over generations."

    Proposal to Oxfam International by Ronni Martin et al:
    http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/oicampaign.html

    Reference by Slashdot.com.

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