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Why? Seed banks aren’t driven by commercial interests. In fact, commercial interests have made agriculture very fragile and very monoculture. I see the same
by nobodyandproud 6y ago
Why? Seed banks aren’t driven by commercial interests.
In fact, commercial interests have made agriculture very fragile and very monoculture.
I see the same problem with cultural languages, where there IS no benefit to the culture in question. Any commercialization by an outsider will be subject to what?
Patents? Copyright? Targeted ads? Imagine a maori teacher having to pay royalties to some company-X, just because wanted to teach their native language to their students?
- aurizon 6y agoLOL, I am sure the current Maori group will hinder this. With carefully managed co-operation they should be able to make any local interest free. As for promotion, the local population is gradually being swamped by foreign contant in texts, books, airwaves and videos - people are voting with theur eyeballs. It may be i8mpossible to ever get a Maori literature, like French, German, English etc, but even those are being forced to fight against 'Franglais' . In a free country it may not ever be possible to eliminate 'majority imperialism' - people do what they like. How can they make their yound people like the Maori language and culture in such a way that it endures? That is the problem.