The following guide was written by Paulina Jenney and adapted from her professional paper, “Keeping What You Sow: Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Breeders and Seed Growers,” submitted in May 2022 to the University of Montana.

Introduction

Over the last 150 years, much of the world’s plant genetic diversity in our food system has been lost, due primarily to the industrialization of agriculture and consolidation of power within the seed industry.1

Emboldened by federal laws and legal decisions during the 20th century,

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