Seed Activism: Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South Peschard Karine E.
Seed Activism: Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South Peschard Karine E. How lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds,…
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Seed Activism: Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South Peschard Karine E.
How lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds, farmers' rights, and the public interest.Over the past decade, legal challenges have arisen in the Global South over patents on genetically modified crops. Peschard explores the effects of these disputes on people's lives, while uncovering the role of power--material, institutional, and discursive--in shaping laws and legal systems. In this ethnographic study, Karine E.
Peschard sees emerging a new legal common sense concerning the patentability of plant-related inventions, as well as a balance among IP, farmers' rights, and the public interest.Peschard The expansion of corporate intellectual property (IP), she shows, negatively impacts farmers' rights and, by extension, the right to food, since small farms produce the bulk of food for domestic consumption.
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