Demonstration at KWS share holder meeting

On 6 December 2022 No Patents on Seeds! demonstrated at the KWS headquarters in Germany to coincide with the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting. The company has filed an increasing number of patent applications within the last few years, claiming plants and seeds both with and without genetic engineering (GE). These patents are a threat to the legally guaranteed breeders’ exemption for conventionally-bred plants, which allows free breeding with all plant varieties on the market. No Patents on Seeds! is further releasing a report today highlighting the risks that the patents held by KWS pose to plant breeding.

The press release

The report Patents filed by KWS are a threat to plant breeding in Europe (December 2022)

WeMove Europe video to share: Protest to Save the Future of our Food! (German, english subtitles)

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Please contact johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org for photos in high resolution.

Photos: Falk Heller

Sculptures: Freia Hellenkamp

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Stop Patents on Plants and Animals!

The member organisations of NO PATENTS ON SEEDS! are concerned about the increasing number of patents on plants, seeds and farm animals and their impact on farmers, breeders, innovation and biodiversity.
These patents are an abuse of patent law and put in danger the access to basic resources in agriculture and food production.

Therefore, we call for an urgent re-think of European patent law in biotechnology and plant breeding and for clear regulations that exclude conventional breeding, genetic material, animals, plants and food derived thereof from patentability!