Industrial countries and large corporations are also lobbying Southern countries to adopt UPOV. They are not particularly great fans of PVP as a legal system of property protection. However, they know that getting the South to accept PVP is just the first step towards getting it to accept full-fledged patents on life forms. That is the real goal of the forces which pushed intellectual property onto the world’s trade agenda – where it doesn’t belong! – in the first place. All the talk about how UPOV is so well adapted to agriculture is merely hidden bait to get governments in the South psychologically prepared for the expansion of Northern industrial property rights over biodiversity.