Land & Environment

A handful of multinational corporations are pressuring governments to allow what could become the broadest and most dangerous patent claims in history, warns the group at the United Nations’ Convention on Biodiversity in Nagoya, Japan (18-29 October 2010).

In the late 1980s when Kenya was still a de jure one-party state, a powerful cabinet minister is on record to have publicly declared, ‘All the Igbos must lie low like an envelope or suffer for their intransigence.” He was contemptuously referring to members of an economically dominant ethnic comm