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Intellectual Property for Pharmaceuticals and Plant Genetic Resources in Brazil

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Brazil’s embrace of the ‘information society’ and ‘knowledge economy’ project is located in the tumultuous period that followed the debt crisis and the fall of the military regime in the mid-1980s. As Brazil’s economic performance improved during the first decade of the new century, the vision of Brazil as the most advanced technological and environmental power of the new century came to orient state activities more purposefully, including those related to reforming the domestic IP system. As in India, these efforts were met with strong resistance by civil society groups and conflicts over IP in the pharmaceutical and agro-biotechnology sector are still ongoing. The second part of the chapter analyses some key conflicts and turning points, once again focusing on the role of the state and some of their most visible consequences until now.

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Muzaka, V. (2018). Intellectual Property for Pharmaceuticals and Plant Genetic Resources in Brazil. In: Food, Health and the Knowledge Economy. Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59306-1_6

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