Future Control of Food

'This is the best single summary of the political choices facing food and agriculture policymakers that has been written in this decade.'
Pat Mooney, Executive Director, the ETC Group

'An excellent resource for those mapping the increasing control of our food chain by international players.'
Suman Sahai, Director, Gene Campaign, India

'A comprehensive and outstanding analysis.'
Keith E. Maskus, Professor of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder

'Brave, visionary and inevitably controversial.'
Andrew Bennett, Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

'An excellent collection of guideposts for perplexed students and scholars and a handbook for the seasoned diplomat seeking to make the world a better place.'
Professor Calestous Juma, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

'I recommend it to all who play a role in the formulation of relevant international norms in whatever capacity, and regardless of the interests they may represent.'
Leo Palma, Deputy Director, Advisory Centre on WTO Law

'Well-researched ... condenses the essence of decades of negotiations into a readable but disturbing narrative ... it is essential reading.'
Patrick Mulvany, Chair, UK Food Group

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.