The Conflict between Farmers Rights in the Food and Agriculture Organization ('FAO') Treaty and Corporate Plant Breeder Laws

摘要

The story of quinine showed the genesis of ignoring farmers' rights, by fraudulently super-adding European taxonomical naming systems, with the apparent force of law. A formal change of the name of the Brazilian rubber plant, from an ancient Indigenous naming system to the Linnaean system, apparently occurred in Europe in 1775, by means of a legislative-style debate among botanists. Indigenous farmers were unlikely to have been part of this debate. This is arguably an instance of fraud by craftiness.