The third factsheet in this series looks at the legal protection given to a breeder who’s discovered a new plant variety.
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5 May 2017
Factsheets: Plant Variety Protection and protected variants
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- South Africa’s plant breeders’ rights laws undermine farmers’ rights to seed and lock out farmer-managed seed systems
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