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05.11.2004 | permalink
Background: US orders seed industry protection in Iraq
Among the 100 orders the US-administrator Paul Bremer left behind in Iraq are drastic US style patent and seed control laws, paving the way not only for Haliburton but also for Monsanto & Co.. "The seeds farmers are now allowed to plant - "protected" crop varieties brought into Iraq by transnational corporations in the name of agricultural reconstruction - will be the property of the corporations," GRAIN reveals.</p><p><a href="http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=6">GRAIN: Iraq`s new patent law - a declaration of war against farmers</a></p><p><a href="http://www.iraqcoalition.org/regulations/20040426_CPAORD_81_Patents_Law.pdf">US Iraq Order 81 on patents and breeding rights</a>