An Essential Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security:
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.
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).
Tamsin 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 Program (QIAP), Ottawa, Canada.
Contents: Food, Genes and Global rules?Securing Whose Interests? ? WTO TRIPS Agreement ? The Convention on Biological Diversity ? FAO Treaty ? World Intellectual Property Organization ? UPOV Conventions ? Emerging Developments and Civil Society Concerns ? Learning Lessons ? Conclusions
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd. Edited by Geoff Tansey , Tamsin Rajotte January 2008 224 pp., 6" x 9 1/4", figures and tables.
The Future Control of Food 
An Essential Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security: