Seeds of kin, kin of seeds: The commodification of organic seeds and social relations in Costa Rica and Latvia

Ethnography

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 490-517

  Aistara, Guntra A ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

biodiversity; free trade agreements; globalization; intellectual property rights; multi sited ethnography; organic agriculture; plant variety protection; post socialism; seed exchange

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155187222     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138111400721     Document Type: Article

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