Susan Bragdon is not so sure about that OECD study about innovation in a consolidating seed sector:
Even if we were to miraculously all agree that these big guys are innovative that does not mean they are behaving in ways that promote or at least do not hurt the public welfare. Corporate concentration allows an exertion of power vertically up and down supply chains and not just in this sector. And unfortunately, powerful, concentrated corporate power increasingly set the rules of the game affecting any kind of true democratic accountability. And it is not just agriculture…
Indeed.
And extra points for spotting the link to the post on extension :)