Seed Activism
Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
22 November 2022
Summary
Over the past decade, legal challenges have arisen in the Global South over patents on genetically modified crops. In this ethnographic study, Karine E. 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. The expansion of corporate intellectual property (IP), she shows, negatively impacts farmers’ rights and, by extension, the right to food, since small farms produce th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262544641 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262544644 |
| Author: | Karine E. Peschard |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 22 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Food, Health, and the Environment |
About The Author
Karine E. Peschard
Karine Peschard is Associate Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and Associate Researcher at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
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