UN expert raises concern over policies marginalizing traditional seed varieties

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United Nations, New York, 21 October 2009 - Government policies in many developing countries which promote the planting of a narrow base of agricultural crops may hurt farmers in the long run, a United Nations human rights expert warned today.

As a result of the global food crisis, developing countries have massively reinvested in agriculture and have sought to provide farmers with the means of production they need to produce food, Olivier de Schutter, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, told reporters in New York.

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