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In this issue: AfCFTA Annex on Plant Variety Protection adopted by the African Union -- Opposition to the Introduction of UPOV 91 through Free Trade Agreements -- The N’Djamena Declaration: Africa’s Seeds Belong to Its Peoples -- An Innovation Garden for Farmers’ Plant Breeding? Inspiration from the Regulatory Sandbox -- Food Security and Scientific Innovation in International Law -- Patenting Plant Biotechnology Innovations: Legal Frameworks, Limitations and Ethical Implications -- Seed is life – and life should not be owned

In this issue: When saving seeds becomes a crime – a new study published by APBREBES -- Intellectual Property and the Right of Farmers to their own seeds -- Canada: Farmer Organisations urge minister to abandon proposed restrictions to farmers’ seed saving rights -- Free Rethinking Plant Variety Protection in Africa: Is the UPOV-Style regime adequate for ensuring Farmers’ Rights and food security? -- Sowing trouble: Seed systems, farmers’ rights and food sovereignty under threat -- India’s compliance with the international IPR regime – A case of plant genetic resources

In this issue: A Landmark Victory for Kenyan Peasants! Kenya’s PVP Act has been Declared Unconstitutional -- Bishops Take a Clear Stance: UPOV Violates Farmers' Rights -- Free Trade Agreements Pushing UPOV -- Upcoming Reforms to India’s Plant Variety Act: Key Issues & Farmer Concerns -- Recovering res communis from res propia: How does Open Source Seed Contribute to Farmers’ Seed Rights and Breeding for Diversity? -- Seeds of Conflict

In this issue: APBREBES Report on the 2025 UPOV Session -- East African Community (EAC) Seed and Plant Varieties Bill, 2025: Potential impacts on Farmers’ Rights in Partner States -- New Plant Breeders’ Rights Act and Regulations in Force in South Africa -- New Podcast: The Battle for African Agriculture -- Battling for Farmers' Seed Systems: UPOV 91 and Trade Agreements -- The Complex Landscape of Intellectual Property Rights in Agricultural Research, Development, and Innovation

In this issue: The European Union's Demand for UPOV 1991 in EPA Trade Negotiations with African ESA Countries Undermines the Right to Food -- The East Asia Plant Variety Protection Forum and UPOV 1991 -- Seed Activism on Four Fronts: MASIPAG’s Rice Seed Struggles in the Philippines -- The Regulation of Agricultural Knowledge, Seed Policies and the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ‘Zero Hunger’ -- Intellectual Property Rights and Plants Made by New Genomic Techniques: The Ongoing Discussion in Europe -- International Conference – IP Protection for Plant Innovation 2024

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