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GRAIN is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.
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European Union - Commission Directive 2008/62/EC on the marketing of "conservation varieties"
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Seedling July 2008 now available
IN THIS ISSUE
One of the few benefits of the current food crisis is that it is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. As we show in our edito
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Bangladesh: When seed companies dictate ag policies
Earlier this month the government of Bangladesh announced a large increase in the amount of hybrid rice seed that would be allowed to be imported. If this 11,500 tonnes of seed is imported and sown in
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Getting out of the food crisis
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This is a pre-release of the editorial on the food crisis of the July 2008 issue of GRAIN's Seedling magazine. We decided to distribute this now in support of the mobilisatio
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Papua New Guinea: mining ushers hybrid rice growing in the Ramu valley
The Ramu Valley in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is not the kind of place where you would expect to find fields of hybrid rice. The people there, much like the rest of PNG, have no tradition of growing or ea
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Updates to grain.org - May 2008
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Civil Society statement on the World Food Emergency - No More âFailures-as-Usual"!
22 May 2008 - The statement was prepared ahead of the FAO Conference on Food Sovereig
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