{"id":264421,"date":"2019-02-06T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=264421"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:31:25","slug":"ethiopia-wins-back-teff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/264421","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia wins back Teff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Zms1IsoWuk<br \/>\nTeff has been the basic grain for Ethiopia\u2019s staple food, Injera for millennia. But a Dutch company registered a European patent for teff-related products, claiming that these were \u201cinvented\u201d by a certain Jans Roosjen, a senior company official in 2003. Ethiopia has been in a legal battle for years to regain the patent rights. The rights are quite valuable to Ethiopia since it helps to exploit the growing global market for Teff.<\/p>\n<p>After years of debate, the Hague Court ruled in favor of Ethiopia, and the announcement was made today after the waiting period for an appeal passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Zms1IsoWuk Teff has been the basic grain for Ethiopia\u2019s staple food, Injera for millennia. But a Dutch company registered a European patent for teff-related products, claiming that these were \u201cinvented\u201d by a certain Jans Roosjen, a senior company official in 2003. Ethiopia has been in a legal battle for years to regain the patent rights. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":264425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Teff.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-16MR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264426,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264421\/revisions\/264426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}