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Seed activism : patent politics and litigation in the global south /

"Seed Activism is an ethnography of court challenges to corporate intellectual property (IP) rights and practices in Brazil and India. Based on a wealth of interviews with a diverse range of actors-from farmers and plant breeders to corporate lawyers-the book offers the first detailed ethnograp...

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Main Authors: Peschard, Karine E. (Author)
Published: The MIT Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Publication Dates: [2022]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Food, health, and the environment
Subjects:
Plants, Cultivated > Developing countries > Patents.
Patent laws and legislation > Developing countries.
Intellectual property > Social aspects > Developing countries.
Plants, Cultivated.
Developing countries.
Summary: "Seed Activism is an ethnography of court challenges to corporate intellectual property (IP) rights and practices in Brazil and India. Based on a wealth of interviews with a diverse range of actors-from farmers and plant breeders to corporate lawyers-the book offers the first detailed ethnographic account of the legal disputes that have arisen in the past decade around patents and royalties on genetically modified soybean, cotton, and eggplant. Seed Activism examines the complex challenges in ensuring farmers' rights to save seed in the Global South in an era of concentrated corporate power in the agricultural input sector"--
Carrier Form: xxii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-171) and index.
ISBN: 9780262544641
0262544644
Index Number: K3876
CLC: D913.4
Call Number: D913.4/P473
Contents: Brazil, India, and intellectual property in agriculture --
Challenging royalties on roundup ready soybean --
Bt cotton : the patent that never was --
Who owns Bt Brinjal? --
Patent politics and legal activism.

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