Privately public seeds: Competing visions of property, personhood, and democracy in Costa Rica's entry into CAFTA and the Union for Plant Variety Protection (UPOV)

Journal of Political Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 127-144

  Aistara, Guntra A ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

CAFTA; Costa Rica; Intellectual property; Seeds; UPOV

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868140961     PISSN: 10730451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2458/v19i1.21721     Document Type: Article

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