{"id":279318,"date":"2019-06-18T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXGh0dHBzOi8vbmV3aW50Lm9yZy9mZWF0dXJlcy8yMDE5LzA2LzE4L2hvdy1jb3Jwb3JhdGlvbi1wYXRlbnRlZC1ldGhpb3BpYXMtbW9zdC1jb21tb24tc3RhcGxl0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:24","slug":"new-internationalist-said-a-dutch-firm-had-patented-ethiopias-staple-teff-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279318","title":{"rendered":"New Internationalist said a Dutch firm had patented Ethiopia\u2019s staple teff crop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 June 2019 New Internationalist published Edna Mohamed\u2019s feature on how a Dutch company turned Ethiopia\u2019s staple teff into intellectual property, framing the patents as a failed economic order that locked a common food crop behind commercial claims.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-291582\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/teff-injera.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"New Internationalist said a Dutch firm had patented Ethiopia\u2019s staple teff crop\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as agri-culture and intellectual-property archive, the New Internationalist feature dates the mid-2019 critique of corporate teff patents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newint.org\/features\/2019\/06\/18\/how-corporation-patented-ethiopias-most-common-staple\">New Internationalist<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a corporation patented Ethiopia&#8217;s most common staple&nbsp;&nbsp;New InternationalistA Dutch company turning food in to intellectual property reveals a failed economic order, Edna Mohamed writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":291582,"comment_status":"closed","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-279318","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\/10\/teff-injera.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aF8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279318","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755264,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279318\/revisions\/755264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}