The future control of food
Subtitle: a guide to international negotiations and rules on intellectual property, biodiversity, and food security
By: edited by Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte.
Contributors: Tansey, Geoff.; Rajotte, Tasmin.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sterling, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844074303; 9781844074297
Subjects: Food law and legislation; Plant varieties -- Patents -- Government policy; Produce trade -- Law and legislation; Intellectual property (International law); Food industry and trade -- Standards; Biodiversity conservation -- Law and legislation; Genetic resources conservation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Food, farming, and global rules / Geoff Tansey; title: Turning plant varieties into intellectual property : the UPOV Convention / Graham Dutfield; title: Bringing minimum intellectual property standards into agriculture : the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) / Pedro Roffe; title: Promoting and extending the reach of intellectual property : the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) / Maria Julia Oliva; title: Safeguarding biodiversity : the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) / Susan Bragdon, Kathryn Garforth, and John E. Haapala, Jr; title: Giving priority to the commons : the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) / Michael Halewood and Kent Nnadozie; title: The negotiations web : complex connections / Tasmin Rajotte; title: Responding to change / Heike Baumüller and Geoff Tansey; title: Postcards from international negotiations / Peter Drahos and Geoff Tansey; title: Global rules, local needs / Geoff Tansey.