New from GRAIN
November 2006

The latest issue of Seedling is now available

SWAPPING STRIGA FOR PATENTS

by GRAIN

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=440
http://www.grain.org/seedling_files/seed-06-10-2.pdf

Later this year some Kenyan farmers will be planting a new kind of maize seed -- StrigAway -- a maize seed that is resistant to the weed Striga. Are farmers simply swapping the stranglehold of the Striga weed for the treadmill of patented seeds and herbicides? GRAIN reports on the introduction of StrigAway in Kenya.