Nibbles: African fruits, Old apple, Ancient barley, GRAIN study, Desertification, Biodiversity loss

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  1. GRAIN on FTAs: If FTAs require countries to- “adopt the rules of
    the International Union for the Protection of New Plant
    Varieties (UPOV) which provide patent-like rights for plant breeders” why doesn’t the Secretariat of the ITPGRFA trigger the Treaty requirement for plant patents [or `patent-like’ rights] for mandatory payments to the Treaty under Treaty article 13. d. ii. UPOV 1991 is certainly `patent-like’ and this should have been accepted and acted on 12 years ago. It would not, of course, trigger payments from pre-UPOV 1991 countries – Canada, Ireland, Norway, New Zealand and the like, but would hit the USA, UK, Germany, Sweden and Australia. Perhaps FAO got cold feet.

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