ANTH 206 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 11 : Plant Breeding, Neoliberalism, Renewable Energy
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In other cases, however, environmental green agendas are the core drivers and goals of grabs. This appropriation of nature for green ends green grabbing" adds a new dimension to the wider discussion of land grabbing" and the study of agrarian change in diverse rural locations across the world. !1: there are new actors, political-economic processes and forms of resistance, constructed. The emerging phenomenon of green grabbing" presents a fundamental and new challenge to. Peasant studies", and indeed all those concerned with the both the analysis and transformational change of rural politics and economies: pearson article. Expansion of intellectual property rights (ipr) regimes has been achieved in part through bilateral freetrades agreements. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in costa rica, in this article i examine a conflict over ipr in the context of a social movement against the central american free trade. Private appropriation of biodiversity, plant varieties, and other biological materials.