July 16, 2024

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Kenya - Enhancing plant variety protection through capacity building

November 6, 2023

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Breeders welcome the adoption of the new Explanatory Notes on Essentially Derived Varieties by the UPOV Council 

December 12, 2022

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Nigeria - Seed legislation will enhance sector’s development, says the Director General, National Agricultural Seed Council (Blueprint)

October 5, 2022

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South Africa - New plant improvement act and plant breeders’ rights regulations look forward to an age of industrial hemp (Engineering News)

September 22, 2022

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“We will not achieve food security without reaching consensus on Farmers’ Rights and Breeders’ Rights” - Speech by Arthur Santosh Attavar, ISF Vice President, at the Opening Ceremony of the ninth session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 

August 15, 2022

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Exploring benefits of Plant Variety Protection system in Nigeria (Blueprint)

November 15, 2021

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Celebrating advent of plants varieties protection law in Nigeria (Vanguard News)

October 25, 2021

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Nigeria - The Plants Varieties Protection Act 2021 (Guardian)

October 20, 2021

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Nigeria’s plant variety protection: in line with international intellectual property norms (Managing IP)

October 14, 2021

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New APBREBES study “Searching for flexibility - Why parties to the 1978 Act of the UPOV Convention have not acceded to the 1991 Act” explores the debates around plant variety protection in nine countries that are parties to UPOV 78

October 5, 2021

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Searching for flexibility - Why parties to the 1978 Act of the UPOV Convention have not acceded to the 1991 Act

October 4, 2021

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Counterfeit seed keeps Ugandan farmers poor (Daily Monitor)

June 2, 2021

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National Agricultural Seeds Advocacy Group: 'Plant Variety bill will boost R&D in the agricultural sector' (AllAfrica)

May 24, 2021

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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture releases inventory on farmers' rights - Unique collection of best practices from around the world

Nigeria - Why the Plant Variety Protection law is important (The Nation)

Nigeria - Plant Variety Protection Law is critical to food security, says the National Agricultural Seed Council (Vanguard)

April 26, 2021

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Three ways in which protecting intellectual property can inspire innovation

The importance of initellectual property in plant science

March 16, 2021

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Nigeria to generate $2bn in five years through Plant Variety Protection Law (Nigerian Tribune)

March 15, 2021

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Nigerian Economic Summit Group calls for speedy passage of Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Bill into law (Guardian)

December 17, 2020

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New APBREBES publication - Focus on plant variety protection: A compilation of selected literature on the impact of the UPOV Convention, alternative sui generis PVP laws and the effect on farmers’ rights
Gros plan sur la protection des obtentions végétales :Une compilation de publications sélectionnées surles impacts de la convention UPOV, les lois alternativessui generis de protection des obtentionsvégétales et l’effet sur les droits des agriculteurs
La protección de las variedades vegetales en el punto de mira:Compilación de literatura seleccionada sobre las repercusiones del convenio de la UPOV, las leyes alternativas sui generis de protección de las variedades vegetales y el efecto en los derechos del agricultor

November 30, 2020

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Globalisation and Seed Sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa

November 25, 2020

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Ghana - Civil society organisations urge President not to assent to the Plant Variety Protection Bill (Graphic Online)

November 18, 2020

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Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society (APBREBES) report from the 2020 UPOV Session

October 16, 2020

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CIOPORA video release: Understand essentially derived variety concept in 90 seconds

July 30, 2020

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Ghana - The obnoxious Plant Breeders' Bill is back to Parliament (Modern Ghana)

June 3, 2020

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How does the European Patent Office's opinion G 3/19 (Pepper) on patentability of plants and animals affect South Africa (International Law Office)

March 2, 2020

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Ghana - Registrar Generals, Ministry of Food and Agriculture sensitise stakeholders on Plant Breeders Bill (GhanaWeb)

December 19, 2019

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Farmers‘ Rights vs. Breeders‘ Rights during the negotiations at the 8th Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)

November 25, 2019

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Fiddling in Rome? Reflections on the International Seed Treaty (Food Ethics Council)