The Innovation, Technology and Society (ITS) program of
IDRC will be launching the book “The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security” on March 6, 2008 at the
IDRC headquarters in Ottawa, Canada.
The book edited by Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte book is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity, and food security. This work responds to concerns from negotiators in various multilateral fora raised about the need for such a guide. It is also an answer to the problem encountered in this area where negotiators or groups working in one issue were often unaware, and sometime undermining, what was happening elsewhere. The book was produced by the Quaker International Affairs Programme (QIAP) and the International Development Research Centre (
IDRC).
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