Corporate profits and Africa’s food security - New African Magazine
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Under the cooperation agreement, African partner countries are requested to change their land ownership and seed laws to facilitate companies’ land tenure and control over the national seed market. This is resulting in massive corporate land grabbing throughout the continent and the enactment of seed laws which criminalise the ability of farmers to freely preserve their own native seeds year on year and exchange them against other varieties to mitigate risks.
Agrochemical corporations have long had their gaze fixed on the seed market. Control over seeds is control over the first link in the food chain, and, beyond, the whole food system. By dictating the patented, corporate-owned seeds farmers can buy, corporations not only reap profits every year, but also assert control over what is being produced.