Tag: FAO

International Forum on Food Safety and Trade

12 March, 2019 Events

The forthcoming FAO/WHO/WTO International Forum on Food Safety and Trade will address trade-related aspects of food safety, in particular, trade facilitation of safe food in the context of rapid technological …

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5 June: International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing

5 June, 2018 Events

At its seventy-second session in November 2017, the United Nations General Assembly declared 5 June the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing. The date …

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World Food Day Poster Contest (Ages 5 to 19)

30 May, 2018 Events

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) invites children and teens all over the world, from ages 5 to 19, to creatively design posters on Zero …

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Geographical Indications are a curious item amongst that disparate bundle of legal exclusionary rights known as intellectual property. Not only do they have nothing to do with innovation, originality, or for that matter anything at all that is shiny and new; on the contrary, they counter innovation by carving out a space in the marketplace for venerable old products made- in large part- in old ways.

Graham Dutfield. Foreword: Place Branding Experiences: Perspectives from Intellectual Property Owners, Users and Lawyers.