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OverviewHow lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds, farmers' rights, and the public interest. 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 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 the bulk of food for domestic consumption. Peschard sees emerging a new legal common sense concerning the patentability of plant-related inventions, as well as a balance among IP, farmers' rights, and the public interest. Peschard examines the strengthening of IP regimes for plant varieties, the consolidation of the global biotech industry, the erosion of agrobiodiversity, and farmers' dispossession. She shows how litigants question the legality of patents and private IP systems implemented by Monsanto for royalties on three genetically modified crop varieties, Roundup Ready soybean in Brazil and Bt cotton and Bt eggplant in India. Peschard argues that these private IP systems have rendered moot domestic legislation on plant variety protection and farmers' rights. This unprecedented level of corporate concentration in such a vital sector raises concerns over the erosion of agricultural biodiversity, farmers' rights and livelihoods, food security, and, ultimately, the merits of extending IP rights to higher life forms such as plants. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karine E. PeschardPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Weight: 0.369kg ISBN: 9780262544641ISBN 10: 0262544644 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 04 October 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Acronyms and Abbreviations xi List of Figures xv Series Foreword xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 1 Brazil, India, and Intellectual Property in Agriculture 21 2 Challenging Royalties on Roundup Ready Soybean 37 3 BT Cotton: The Patent that Never Was 57 4 Who Owns BT Brinjal? 77 5 Patent Politics and Legal Activism 93 Conclusion 113 Appendix A Timeline of the Court Cases 121 Appendix B Log of Interviews 123 Appendix C BT Brinjal and the International Regime Governing Plant Genetic Resources 129 Appendix D Udupi Mattu Gulla: A Case Study 133 Notes 137 References 149 Index 173ReviewsAuthor InformationKarine 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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