Indigenous Maize: Who Owns the Rights to Mexico’s ‘Wonder’ Plant?
31st August 2019
A nitrogen-fixing maize grown in an indigenous region of Mexico has the ability to fertilize itself, recent research shows. Now, as a global company and U.S. scientists work to replicate this trait in other corn varieties, will the villages where the maize originated share fairly in the profits?
Why should they ‘share in the profits’? Did they genetically engineer the variety from something else?
Or is this just socialist rent-seeking on behalf of ‘poor igorant natives’ by ‘woke’ educated white people?
We report, you decide.