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Farmers’ and civil society organizations in Tanzania are concerned about the rush for Zanzibar to adopt its Plant Breeders’ Rights Bill. It would hasten Tanzania’s entry into the UPOV intellectual property legal framework with grave consequences for farmers.

For the statement and list of signatories:

Foreword by the Editors

The Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society (APBREBES) was granted

observer status to UPOV in October 2010. At the same time, UPOV established a working

group to look at rules concerning observers. In such a discussion, we believe the

overview provided in this report on the rules concerning observers in UPOV and in

other international fora of relevance to UPOV will be useful.