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.
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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1 online resource (289 p.)
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"Quaker International Affairs Programme.". - Food, farming, and global rules / Geoff Tansey -- Turning plant varieties into intellectual property : the UPOV Convention / Graham Dutfield -- Bringing minimum 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.. - This 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. The final part discusses the responses of civil society groups to the changing gl
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1-136-55391-6. - 1-136-55392-4. - 1-281-16212-4. - 1-281-19096-9. - 1-4356-1619-7. - 1-55250-397-6. - 1-84977-302-5. - 600-00-0194-0. - 9786611162122. - 9786611190965

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