Ethiopian teff: The fight against biopiracy
By DW
25 January 2020 |
7:52 am
A controversial patent on Ethiopia's national cereal teff is about to be terminated — thanks, in part, to the initiative of a German lawyer. But the problem of biopiracy is far from solved.
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