The Future Control of Food - A book launch and discussion with Geoff Tansey

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 is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security. Providing an introduction to and overview of the issues, it also includes a comprehensive analysis of negotiations and instruments in the World Trade Organization, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants and various other international bodies, as well as a discussion of 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.

At this ODI and Earthscan event, Geoff Tansey, co-editor of the book, will present the main findings and Steve Wiggins of ODI will add his comments.

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).