by Geoff Tansey (Editor), Geoff Tansey (Editor)
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 global rules, how these changes affect the direction of research and development, the nature of global negotiation processes and various alternative futures. Published with IDRC and QIAP.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 Nov 2007
ISBN 10: 1844074293
ISBN 13: 9781844074297
Prizes: Shortlisted for Guild of Food Writers Awards: Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing 2009.