Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 36
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Meanwhile, global agribusiness and biotechnology corporations have transformed the global commercial seed market into a multi-billion dollar industry and four companies alone account for 50% of this market. With such lucrative monopolies at stake, these international corporations have actively exercised the IPR regime to secure exclusive access to, and thus royalties from, patented seeds.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the right to food
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Special Procedures' report
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Economic Rights
Food & Nutrition
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2016
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Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/51, para. 36.