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The future control of food : a guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectual property, biodiversity, and food security / edited by Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte.

Title
The future control of food : a guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectual property, biodiversity, and food security / edited by Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte.
Publication
London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan ; Ottawa : Quaker International Affairs Programme : International Development Research Centre, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Tansey, Geoff
  • Rajotte, Tasmin
Description
xxi, 266 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
This practical book highlights the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security. Additionally it covers negotiations in the World Trade Organization, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Food and Agriculture Organization and various other international bodies.
Subject
  • Plant varieties > Patents > Government policy
  • Food law and legislation
  • Produce trade > Law and legislation
  • Intellectual property (International law)
  • Food industry and trade > Standards
  • Biodiversity conservation > Law and legislation
  • Germplasm resources conservation
Genre/Form
Patents
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Food, farming, and global rules / Geoff Tansey -- Turning plant varieties into intellectual property : the UPOV Convention / Graham Dutfield -- Bringing minimum global intellectual property standards into agriculture : the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) / Pedro Roffe -- Promoting and extending the reach of intellectual property : the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) / Maria Julia Oliva -- Safeguarding biodiversity : the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) / Susan Bragdon, Kathryn Garforth, and John E. Haapala, Jr. -- Giving priority to the commons : the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) / Michael Halewood and Kent Nnadozie -- The negotiations web : complex connections / Tasmin Rajotte -- Responding to change / Heike Baumüller and Geoff Tansey -- Postcards from international negotiations / Peter Drahos and Geoff Tansey -- Global rules, local needs / Geoff Tansey.
ISBN
  • 9781844074303 (hardback)
  • 1844074307 (hardback)
  • 9781844074297 (pbk.)
  • 1844074293 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007034792
OCLC
  • 167504289
  • SCSB-10099588
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library