New trade deals legalise corporate theft, make farmers’ seeds illegal

https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5511-new-trade-deals-legalise-
corporate-theft-make-farmers-seeds-illegal

Since 2001, GRAIN has been tracking how so-called free trade agreements (FTAs), negotiated largely in secret, outside the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are being used to go beyond existing international standards on the patenting of life forms. In this report, we provide an update on the FTAs that are legalising corporate theft and threatening farmers’ ability to save, produce and exchange seeds around the world.