The study compares in situ seed conservation trends in two crop categories, ‘pulses' crops and ‘preferred' crops, in two regions of central India. It finds that in situ agrobiodiversity (seed) conservation efforts suffer statistically significant decrease in crops for which varieties...

India's amendment to her patent regime in 2005 to introduce pharmaceutical product patents attracted unprecedented attention, both domestically and globally. While multinational pharmaceutical companies were concerned that the Act withered away their exclusive rights, civil society activists...