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Lessons for Kenya in tomato patent war

By Pravin Bowry

Kenya: For over a century courts have been embroiled in legal battles relating to the humble tomato. And even today there are cases between nations and multi-nationals quibbling over this crop which some have termed ‘the evil tomato’.

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