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In this issue: Seeds at Risk - Global Struggles for Control over Food / Online Launch of the Report -- Recent EFTA Free Trade Agreements do not Require UPOV Compliance -- Unpacking the AfCFTA Protocol on Intellectual Property Rights -- Bolivia’s Resistance to Modification and Commodification of Seeds: Challenges in Aligning the Domestic Situation with its International Position -- A Comparative Analysis of the Indian and Nigerian PVP Regimes: Advocacy for a Balanced Protection of Interests in the Nigerian Seed Sector -- A Case Study on Farmer-Managed Seed Systems (FMSS) in Zambia

In this issue: UPOV's War against the Rights of Farmers -- At the End of Property - Patents, Plants and the Crisis of `Propertization´ -- Farmers' Organisations Reject the Attempt to Restrict the Farmer's Privilege in Canada -- Intellectual Property Rights and Plants Made by New Genomic Techniques -- Developing a Registration System for Farmers' Varieties -- The Federal Seed Act, Plant Variety Protection, and the Politics of Seed Exchange in the United States

In this issue: APBREBES Report on the 2024 UPOV Session -- Italian Supreme Court Finds Plant Breeder's Contractual Terms were Contrary to Public Interest -- The Emergence of Posthuman Legalities and Peasant Rights -- UNDROP and the Right to Seeds --Farmers’ Rights in the Plant Treaty: Interrelations and Recent Interactions with other International Regimes and Processes -- Patents on living organisms: a growing appropriation

In this issue: Strong Resistance Against the Proposed Plant Breeders Rights (PBR) Law in Line with UPOV in Zambia -- The Seed Sector Development in Low-income Countries: Lessons from Malawi’s Seed sector Policy Process -- Farmers’ Rights, Traditional Knowledge, and Intellectual Property (Nigeria) -- Farmers’ Rights in Malaysia: Revisiting the Implementation of the Protection of New Plant Varieties Act 2004 -- Intellectual Property Over Mutant and Gene Edited Plants

In this issue: UPOV Turns a Deaf Ear to the Concerns of Smallholder Farmers -- New Genomic Techniques and Intellectual Property Law: Challenges and Solutions for the Plant Breeding Sector -- African Perspectives on Agroecology - Why Farmer-led Seed and Knowledge Systems Matter -- Advancing Agrobiodiversity - Why Organisations of Smallholders and Indigenous Peoples are Vital -- African Free Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property

In this issue: Indonesia Maintains its Position not to Accede to UPOV 1991 -- Argentina: Push to Join UPOV 91 Halted for the Time Being -- Zambian Farmers and Human Rights Groups Join the Global Campaign to Protect Farmers’ Seed Systems -- Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature -- A Comprehensive Review on the Impacts of Intellectual Property Rights on the Global Agricultural Economy

In this issue: APBREBES Report on the UPOV October Session 2023 -- No support and legal certainty for small-scale farmers in the Global South -- Cracking the Code: Open-Source Seed and Intellectual Property Rights -- Intellectual Property Exhaustion, Breeders’ Frustration, and Hindered Innovation: Reviewing U.S. Organic Corn Seed Development -- Property Right of Agricultural Biotechnology in Indonesia: Islamic and Western Legal Philosophy

In this issue: What Future for Seeds under the African Free Trade Area? -- Indonesia Must Resist EU's Trade Talk Demands that Undermine Farmers' Rights -- A Re-examination of the 2021 Nigerian Plant Variety Act from the Perspective of Pre-existing Obligations to Protect Plant Varieties -- Seed Systems Development to Navigate Multiple Expectations in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania -- More Than a Resource - the Social Significance of Local Seed Systems and Seed Exchange in the Global South - The Example of Tanzania -- Cultivating Seed Sovereignty in Tarija, Bolivia

In this issue: The Potential Impact of UPOV 1991 on the Malaysian Seed Sector, Farmers, and Their Practices -- Lesser Food Security, Food Crisis, and Boundaries to Intellectual Property -- Navigating Toward Resilient and Inclusive Seed Systems -- Policies, Laws, and Regulations in Support of Farmer-managed Seed Systems: Still a Long Way to Go -- Benin Says No to UPOV – The Greatest Seed Robbery -- How to Navigate the Complexities of IP in Agriculture: Milestones and Challenges -- Intellectual Property Rights vis-à-vis Food Security: A Critical Analysis

In this issue: Reform backlog – APBREBES Report on the UPOV Spring Session 2023 -- Fewer Choices for Farmers? The Impact of IP on Seeds in the US -- The European Court of Justice protects farmers from excessive compensation for farm-saved seeds -- The implications of UNDROP for the right to seeds in Africa – and a Sustainable World Food System -- How policies influence smallholder farmers’ access to seeds in East Africa -- The impact of Plant Breeders’ Rights in Costa Rica