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Sponsoring a North American boycott of rice products from Rice Tec, an American based transnational corporation, to oppose a patent awarded the corporation on certain strains of Basmati rice that are simple cross breeds of traditional Basmati strains that were developed over a long period by farmers in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. Raises awarenes about bio-piracy, life patents, and colonialism, emphasizing the feminist, classist, and North - South nature of bio-piracy
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agriculture biotechnology boycotts colonialism corporate-controlled globalization corporations development feminism India intellectual property Pakistan