Seed Activism Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South

• Main Author: Peschard, Karine E. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: Food, Health, and the Environment
• Subjects: Food security & supply; Patents law; Intellectual property; agricultural biotechnology; GMOs; seeds; farmers' rights; legal activism; food sovereignty; Brazil; India
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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. In this ethnographic st...