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Academies call for ban on patenting agricultural life forms
Ehsan Masood
The Council of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), which met in Budapest last Thursday (24 June) before the start of the main conference, endorsed a call for a ban on the patenting of all "agricultural life forms"."Agriculture in much of the developing world is the result of the collective experience gained from the sweat and toil of poor peasants over thousands of years," says TWAS vice-president Muhammad Akhtar, emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Southampton in England.
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