Subject(s): Transgenic plants -- Plant genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Genetic engineering -- Environmental aspects. -- Farmers -- Intellectual property rights Article 27 of WTO agreement, trade related aspects, patents or sui generis, UPOV -- Rishikesh Declaration -- Downside of GM seeds for agriculture in the south : Long years of breeding work by farmers, privatisation, economic dependence,small farmers, farmer to producer of molecules, ecological threats in south -- Farmers autonomy jeopardised by sterile seeds : Terminator, technology ad risks -- Ecological and health risks at stake : inadequate foresight, commercial success, gene flow, resistance towards insects, biodiversity, agrarian system in south -- Politics of GMO seeds : Hunger, sustainable development or green revolution, intensifying production at the cost of biodiversity, mobilising farmers -- Ethics : Transgression of the laws of nature, profit minded, imbalance -- Commercialisation -- Workshop on genetically modified organisms and the rights of the rural community, saharanpur 1999