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Civil society and agricultural groups in Oaxaca, Mexico, say US scientists from the University of California and University of Wisconsin-Madison, working for Mars Inc., committed biopiracy between 2006 and 2015 by using genetic traits of olotón corn from the Mixe community of Totontepec. They report that patent requests were filed on those genetic characteristics, a species documented since the 1950s in Mexico and Guatemala.
The dispute concerns intellectual property and access rights over native corn genetics rather than supply, so it has no direct effect on corn prices or feed availability. It may influence future regulation of genetic resources under the Nagoya Protocol and USMCA-linked rules.
eluniversal.com.mxRedacción El UniversalOct 3, 2019After 1,623 past policy events, Corn moved a median +0.1% over 5 sessions (51% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.5%), and +0.4% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
