Tanzania Forced To Embrace Seed Patents Or Risk Losing Aid
A “development assistance” initiative launched five years ago by the G8,
an inter-governmental political forum of the world’s most
industrialized nations that consider
themselves democracies, is holding Tanzania hostage to the benefit of
agribusinesses like Monsanto and the detriment of small-scale Tanzanian
farmers.
A woman works a field near the Tanzanian town of Arusha. (AP/Karel Prinsloo)