Karine Peschard
Biographic Data
| ID | 172736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karine Peschard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karine |
| FAMILY NAME | Peschard |
| SIGNATURE | PESCHARD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6941-6501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Keeping seeds in our hands
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of what may be termed as seed activism. In this opening paper of the JPS Special Forum on Seed Activism, we explore the surge of mobilizations the world over in response to processes of seed enclosures and loss of agrobiodiversity. A historical overview of the evolution of seed activism over the past three decades traces a paradigm shift from farm…
Taking Monsanto to court
This article analyzes legal disputes involving Monsanto's patents and royalties for Roundup Ready soybeans, Bt cotton and Bt eggplant in two important GM-crop producing countries. It argues that Monsanto implemented private royalty collection systems adapted to the specificities of crops and agrarian conditions in Brazil and India. The corporation thus enjoyed in practice the same extraordinary degree of IP rights in these countries as in the Uni…
JPS special forum on seed activism
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of the rise of what may be termed as seed activism. Indeed, over the past two decades, there has
Seed wars and farmers' rights
Drawing on interviews with Indian and Brazilian farmers' rights activists, lawyers, agronomists and plant breeders, this article aims at better understanding how farmers' rights are protected on paper and implemented on the ground in these two countries. Brazil and India offer important case studies because they are biologically megadiverse countries, and because small farmers represent an important segment of the rural economy. In this article, …
Farmers' rights and food sovereignty
Farmers' access to and rights over seeds are the very pillars of agriculture, and thus represent an essential component of food sovereignty. Three decades after the term farmers' rights was first coined, there now exists a broad consensus that this new category of rights is historically grounded and imperative in the current context of the expansion of intellectual property rights (IPRs) over plant varieties. However, the issue of their realizati…
Unexpected discontent
Brazil has been host to one of the most controversial debates around the adoption of transgenic plant varieties. Since 2008, transgenic crops have been approved at high speed. However, their spread has been accompanied by mounting discontent among farmers. This article explores the nature and expressions of this new discontent, which centres on royalties, overall profitability and lack of access to conventional varieties. I show how this emerging…
Anthropology, Inequality, and Disease
Anthropological approaches broaden and deepen our understanding of the finding that high levels of socioeconomic inequality correlate with worsened health outcomes across an entire society. Social scientists have debated whether such societies are unhealthy because of diminished social cohesion, psychobiological pathways, or the material environment. Anthropologists have questioned these mechanisms, emphasizing that fine-grained ethnographic stud…
Keeping seeds in our hands
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of what may be termed as seed activism. In this opening paper of the JPS Special Forum on Seed Activism, we explore the surge of mobilizations the world over in response to processes of seed enclosures and loss of agrobiodiversity. A historical overview of the evolution of seed activism over the past three decades traces a paradigm shift from farm…
Seed wars and farmers' rights
Drawing on interviews with Indian and Brazilian farmers' rights activists, lawyers, agronomists and plant breeders, this article aims at better understanding how farmers' rights are protected on paper and implemented on the ground in these two countries. Brazil and India offer important case studies because they are biologically megadiverse countries, and because small farmers represent an important segment of the rural economy. In this article, …
Farmers' rights and food sovereignty
Farmers' access to and rights over seeds are the very pillars of agriculture, and thus represent an essential component of food sovereignty. Three decades after the term farmers' rights was first coined, there now exists a broad consensus that this new category of rights is historically grounded and imperative in the current context of the expansion of intellectual property rights (IPRs) over plant varieties. However, the issue of their realizati…
Unexpected discontent
Brazil has been host to one of the most controversial debates around the adoption of transgenic plant varieties. Since 2008, transgenic crops have been approved at high speed. However, their spread has been accompanied by mounting discontent among farmers. This article explores the nature and expressions of this new discontent, which centres on royalties, overall profitability and lack of access to conventional varieties. I show how this emerging…
Taking Monsanto to court
This article analyzes legal disputes involving Monsanto's patents and royalties for Roundup Ready soybeans, Bt cotton and Bt eggplant in two important GM-crop producing countries. It argues that Monsanto implemented private royalty collection systems adapted to the specificities of crops and agrarian conditions in Brazil and India. The corporation thus enjoyed in practice the same extraordinary degree of IP rights in these countries as in the Uni…
JPS special forum on seed activism
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of the rise of what may be termed as seed activism. Indeed, over the past two decades, there has
Anthropology, Inequality, and Disease
Anthropological approaches broaden and deepen our understanding of the finding that high levels of socioeconomic inequality correlate with worsened health outcomes across an entire society. Social scientists have debated whether such societies are unhealthy because of diminished social cohesion, psychobiological pathways, or the material environment. Anthropologists have questioned these mechanisms, emphasizing that fine-grained ethnographic stud…
Unexpected discontent
Brazil has been host to one of the most controversial debates around the adoption of transgenic plant varieties. Since 2008, transgenic crops have been approved at high speed. However, their spread has been accompanied by mounting discontent among farmers. This article explores the nature and expressions of this new discontent, which centres on royalties, overall profitability and lack of access to conventional varieties. I show how this emerging…
Farmers' rights and food sovereignty
Farmers' access to and rights over seeds are the very pillars of agriculture, and thus represent an essential component of food sovereignty. Three decades after the term farmers' rights was first coined, there now exists a broad consensus that this new category of rights is historically grounded and imperative in the current context of the expansion of intellectual property rights (IPRs) over plant varieties. However, the issue of their realizati…
Seed wars and farmers' rights
Drawing on interviews with Indian and Brazilian farmers' rights activists, lawyers, agronomists and plant breeders, this article aims at better understanding how farmers' rights are protected on paper and implemented on the ground in these two countries. Brazil and India offer important case studies because they are biologically megadiverse countries, and because small farmers represent an important segment of the rural economy. In this article, …
JPS special forum on seed activism
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of the rise of what may be termed as seed activism. Indeed, over the past two decades, there has
Keeping seeds in our hands
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of what may be termed as seed activism. In this opening paper of the JPS Special Forum on Seed Activism, we explore the surge of mobilizations the world over in response to processes of seed enclosures and loss of agrobiodiversity. A historical overview of the evolution of seed activism over the past three decades traces a paradigm shift from farm…
Taking Monsanto to court
This article analyzes legal disputes involving Monsanto's patents and royalties for Roundup Ready soybeans, Bt cotton and Bt eggplant in two important GM-crop producing countries. It argues that Monsanto implemented private royalty collection systems adapted to the specificities of crops and agrarian conditions in Brazil and India. The corporation thus enjoyed in practice the same extraordinary degree of IP rights in these countries as in the Uni…
Political science (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Genetically Modified Organisms Research (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Business (2 works)