VICTORY: Kenyan Court Rules “Sharing Seeds is Not a Crime” in Landmark Verdict for Food Sovereignty

Reuters says the same thing with more context and less gushing:

Parts of the law "granted extensive proprietary rights to plant breeders and there was no corresponding right that was given to the farmers. So, it favoured big commercial and corporate interests over the rights of farmers," Wambugu Wanjohi from the Law Society of Kenya said.

Very good news indeed! The global IP regime around seeds is pretty bad, but this is not affecting that. It's about even worse restrictions in Kenya specifically.

America: Shame about that coup you're about to experience

What about eating seeds, as a pass time activity?

Now do all the other countries.

Fuck you Monsanto

That's seems like a great way to make sure no large seed company will ever do business in your country ever again.

I'm all for abolishing IP laws for any area, but it's kinda dumb to lead the way if you develop basically no new products yourself.

EDIT: After some more reading, I've found this is a TERRIBLE article. The Kenyan law was that farmers literally couldn’t share or sell ANY seeds, including 200 year old heirloom crops. If you produced a new cultivar based on heirloom seeds, that wasn't just free to use, it was ILLEGAL unless you were a registered seed company. That insanity has been fixed now.