Haha very important disclaimer there, because reading your post sounds a lot like a person who works for big ag.

The other reason these laws exist is a long history by Big Ag (Monsanto, Cargill) doing the following, and has been done in the states for a while:

1) gmo/patented seeds in field on the left, community non-big ag seeds on the right field.

2) Cross-pollination occurs because we’re talking crops. Variations on this.

3) Monsanto sues Farmer John and Jane into the ground next season for stealing tech via the crops he’s growing.

Add in a little bit of fear (encryption backdoors for the children, laws to prevent dangerous counterfeit seeds!), and you have monopoly on farming run by big corps.

Also, US corps have a long history of POC’ing underhanded approaches in Africa.

What could be going on here!?

Edit - Man, rereading, “forced to plant [dangerous] saved seeds,” guess it’s Big Ag + tech startups now pushing this. Maybe… those farmers just want to control their “IP” (saved seeds) so they don’t have to buy them from a cartel of seed providers? This is such a well known problem in the states, is this marketing really working in Africa?

From what I've read, the articles about Monsanto suing innocent farmers is misleading.

How does that suing pass muster is any court of law?