UH role in kalo research
Andrew G. Hashimoto, Dean/Director of the College
of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) at UH Manoa has a letter
in Ka
Leo explaining the positive actions of CTAHR
for kalo and attempting to justify their patents of new varieties. All he says
is well and good, and their research and publications have been truly valuable,
but that still doesn't square with patenting varieties and then charging kalo
farmers a licensing fee to use them or controlling how farmers use them. And it
completely misses the point that, if UH wants to claim it "owns" the
"improvements" they invested in, then Hawaiians have just as much a claim to own
the improvements that created the kalo varieties that UH used in the first
place.
Posted: Fri - March 10, 2006 at 09:58 AM