TY - GEN AB - "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"-- AU - Peschard, Karine E., CN - K3876 ID - 1413478 KW - Plants, Cultivated KW - Intellectual property KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (see also SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food) KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science / Chemistry & Biotechnology KW - LAW / Intellectual Property / Patent LK - https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14484.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy LK - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf N2 - "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"-- SN - 9780262372237 SN - 0262372231 SN - 9780262372220 SN - 0262372223 T1 - Seed activism :patent politics and litigation in the global south / TI - Seed activism :patent politics and litigation in the global south / UR - https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14484.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy UR - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf ER -