Archived Can We Grow One of the Worlds Largest Food Crops Without Fertilizer? (ucdavis.edu)
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Archived Can We Grow One of the Worlds Largest Food Crops Without Fertilizer? (ucdavis.edu)
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[–] burtzev 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I notice two things about this article. One is that with a maturation period of 9 months there is a large area where corn is presently grown that would be unsuitable for this variety. Part of the research was done in Madison, Wisconsin, but I'd lay money that the corn there would be grown in a greenhouse.
The second thing is that this variety's use will be governed under the Nagoya protocol. This means that the state of the revenue sharing will be a matter of contractual agreement. There are no firm percentages in the protocol. I also notice that the federal Mexican government had its hands in the agreement. It would be interesting to see what, if any, remuneration goes to the people of the village where the variety was found and what merely disappears into the general revenue of the federal government.
[–] TheBuddha [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I wish I had the answers, but there's this:
http://www.chaire-epi.ulaval.ca/sites/chaire-epi.ulaval.ca/files/publications/paper_no.115.pdf
That seems to indicate that Mexico doesn't really have many additional agreements above the Nagoya protocol, while some have countries have iterated their rights and responsibilities further.
Which, I suspect, translates to the village getting not a damned thing, except maybe a trivial amount after a long legal battle. That's just a hunch, I suppose.