The High Court has declared key sections of the Seed and Plant Varieties Act unconstitutional, delivering a major victory for smallholder farmers and effectively ending the criminalization of saving, sharing and exchanging indigenous seeds. Justice Rhoda Rutto, in her landmark ruling, found that the law violated constitutional rights to culture, livelihood, and economic freedom by…
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