On 18 June 2019 New Internationalist published Edna Mohamed’s feature on how a Dutch company turned Ethiopia’s staple teff into intellectual property, framing the patents as a failed economic order that locked a common food crop behind commercial claims.
The essay treated the teff and injera story as a wider warning about who owns traditional crops when foreign firms file patents far from the farms that bred them.
Kept as agri-culture and intellectual-property archive, the New Internationalist feature dates the mid-2019 critique of corporate teff patents.
Sources: New Internationalist