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Patel, Rajeev. and Torres, Robert. "Poverty Justifies Intellectual Property - Representations of Development and the Case for Intellectual Property in Agriculture" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110494_index.html>

Patel, R. and Torres, R. J. , 2004-08-14 "Poverty Justifies Intellectual Property - Representations of Development and the Case for Intellectual Property in Agriculture" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110494_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Although the effects of global intellectual property (IP) regimes have their most profound effects in the third world, decisions over these regimes are fixed in the first world. The debates preceding these decisions are contested by advocates and critics of IP alike, and both sides mobilize representations of development to buttress their cases. Comparing public discourse over IP regimes in agriculture provides an insight into the political economy not only of the agricultural industry, but also of the transnational representation of development. We examine the debates over genetically modified (GM) seeds in the U.S. and Europe, noting how third world bodies are mobilized, and how discourses of poverty are used to justify or criticize the promotion of GM seeds. By noting that the pesticide industry is the principal advocate of IP in agriculture, we are able to cast contemporary debates over IP into a longer history of intervention in, and representation of, the third world in attempts to secure hegemony over visions of sustainable agriculture, in developing countries and developed.

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