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Geneva Rhetoric, National Reality: The Political Economy of Introducing Plant Breeders' Rights in Kenya

Dwijen RangnekarSchool of Law, University of Warwick, CoventryCV4 7AL, UK.Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 359-383 | Published online: 28 May 2013

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