The Future Control of Food

by Tansey, Geoff; Rajotte, Tamsin

• ISBN13: 9781844074303
• ISBN10: 1844074307
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

This practical book is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security. Proceeding from an introduction and overview of the issues, comprehensive chapters cover negotiations and instruments in the World Trade Organization, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants and various other international bodies. This guide is an essential tool for everyone involved in shaping the future of food including negotiators, activists, environmentalists, food and intellectual property researchers, companies, farmer groups and all others affected by global negotiations. Published with IDRC and QIAP

Author Biography

Geoff Tansey is a researcher and writer on intellectual property, food and agriculture and a Joseph Rowntree Visionary for a Just and Peaceful World. He is lead author of The Food System (1995) and co-editor of The Meat Business (1999) and Negotiating Health (2005). Tasmin Rajotte has worked in the field of sustainable agriculture, food security and environment for a number of years and is the representative for the Quaker International Affairs Programme (QIAP), Ottawa, Canada.

Table of Contents

List of figures, tables and boxes	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Notes on contributors	p. xiv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Acronyms and abbreviations	p. xix
A Changing Food System
Food, Farming and Global Rules	p. 3
The Key Global Negotiations and Agreements
Turning Plant Varieties into Intellectual Property: The UPOV Convention	p. 27
Bringing Minimum Global Intellectual Property Standards into Agriculture: The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)	p. 48
Promoting and Extending the Reach of Intellectual Property: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)	p. 69
Safeguarding Biodiversity: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)	p. 82
Giving Priority to the Commons: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)	p. 115
The Negotiations Web: Complex Connections	p. 141
Responses, Observations and Prospects
Responding to Change	p. 171
Postcards from International Negotiations	p. 197
Global Rules, Local Needs	p. 212
Notes	p. 221
References	p. 225
List of organizations	p. 239
23 international treaties administered by WIPO	p. 247
A short history of the Annex I list	p. 249
Glossary	p. 253
Index	p. 257
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