Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 38
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The fact that 73% of the world's seed supply is owned and patented by these corporations and are therefore non-renewable, presents women with a major dilemma being. They are accustomed to seed saving and sharing, and would have o chose between discontinuing the traditional practice of saving and exchanging seeds or risk punishment for an intellectual property crime.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Food & Nutrition
Gender
Person(s) affected
Women
Year
2016
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Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/51, para. 38.