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Read the passage depicting a systemic problem below. Assuming everything in the statement to be true, decide which of the suggested courses of action logically follow(s) for implementation. Passage: An elite agricultural technology corporation has engineered a highly advanced, climate-resilient crop seed variety capable of surviving severe droughts and safeguarding food security in high-risk regions. However, the company has set the commercial licensing fees so high that only a minute fraction of wealthy industrial farming syndicates can afford to purchase it. The corporation defends its pricing strategy by asserting it must recover massive decadal research and development overheads, while international smallholder farming unions and human rights NGOs demand urgent, affordable access to prevent localized famines. Governments in vulnerable developing regions are under immense pressure to intervene. Suggested Courses of Action: 1. Impoverished independent farmers should organize local grassroots community charity fundraisers to purchase the proprietary seeds at full retail value rather than expecting corporate or state intervention. 2. The agricultural corporation should implement structured, tiered licensing models that dynamically scale pricing based on the purchasing power parity and income levels of different agricultural regions. 3. Vulnerable governments should enforce emergency compulsory patent waivers, legally permitting regional public cooperatives to reproduce and distribute the climate-resilient seeds at a baseline, cost-effective price point.
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