Editing Vandana Shiva (section)

===Seed freedom===
Vandana supports the idea of seed freedom, or the rejection of patents on new plant lines or cultivars. She has campaigned against the implementation of the WTO 1994 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights [[TRIPS Agreement|(TRIPS) agreement]], which broadens the scope of patents to include life forms. Shiva has criticised the agreement as having close ties with the corporate sector and opening the door to further patents on life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/global/vshiva4_int.html|title=Interview with Vandana Shiva – The Role of Patents in the Rise of Globalization / Global Eyes / In Motion Magazine|publisher=Inmotionmagazine.com|access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> Shiva calls the patenting of life 'biopiracy', and has fought against attempted patents of several indigenous plants, such as basmati.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Megarhetorics of Global Development|last=Schell|first=Eileen|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|date=January 2012|isbn=9780822961727|url=http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36243|pages=170|access-date=30 November 2017|archive-date=17 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917070726/http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36243|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2005, Shiva's was one of the three organisations that won a 10-year battle in the [[European Patent Office]] against the biopiracy of [[Neem]] by the [[US Department of Agriculture]] and the corporation [[WR Grace]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4333627.stm|title=Science/Nature – India wins landmark patent battle|publisher=BBC News|access-date=20 January 2015|date=9 March 2005}}</ref> In 1998, Shiva's organisation [[Navdanya]] began a campaign against the biopiracy of basmati rice by US corporation [[RiceTec]] Inc. In 2001, following intensive campaigning, RiceTec lost most of its claims to the patent.