Seed activism : : patent politics and litigation in the global south / / Karine E. Peschard.

"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 ethnograp...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2022]
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Food, Health, and the Environment
Physical Description:1 online resource (190 pages)
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