The deepening agrarian and food crisis has its roots in changes in the seed supply system…the past twenty years have seen…control over seeds by a very small number of giant corporations…[T]he Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement of the World Trade Organisation has accelerated the spread of genetically modified [GMO] seeds - which can be patented - and for which royalties can be collected...[P]atented GMO seeds are…undermining seed sovereignty…As a farmer’s seed supply is eroded…farmers become dependent on patented GMO seed…Some 95 per cent of the country's cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto - and the debt trap created by being forced to buy seed every year - with royalty payments - has pushed hundreds of thousands of farmers to suicide; of the 250,000 farmer suicides, the majority are in the cotton belt...[R]oyalties for Monsanto are based on debt, suicidal farmers and the disappearance of biodiversity worldwide.