Seed Activism: Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South by Karine E. PeschardCall Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2022
Also in print: K3876 .P47 2022 LAW
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.