Excellent news coming out of Guatemala, with the Guatemalan people securing the overturning of The Monsanto Law. The Monsanto Law meant that Guatemalan farmers would not have been able to grow and harvest anything that originates from natural seeds. Farmers would be breaking the laws if these natural seeds had been mixed with patented seeds from other crops as a result of pollination or wind, unless they had had a license for the patented seed from a transnational corporation like Monsanto. Mayan people and social organizations claimed that the new law violated the Constitution and the Mayan people’s right to traditional cultivation of their land in their ancestral territories. Read more here - https://intercontinentalcry.org/mayan-peoples-movement-defeats-monsanto-law-guatemala-25564/
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:00:00 +0000