India's Plant Variety Protection Framework Systematically Disadvantages Smallholder Farmers in Favor of Corporate Seed Systems

How the 2001 PPVFR Act's farmers'-rights provisions have been operationalized in ways that systematically favor corporate breeders, and what a smallholder-first reform would actually require.

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