@article{27346, note = {Introduction Part 1: The Policy Context 1. Geographical Indications and TRIPS / Michael Blakeney 2. Setting up of a GI: Requirements and Difficulties at the Producer Level / Audrey Aubard 3. Legal Infrastructure for the Protection of GIs / Michael Blakeney 4. Geographical Indications and Economic Development 5. Assessing the Economic Impact of Protecting Geographical Indications / Thierry Coulet 6. Geographical Indications, Traditional Knowledge, Expressions of Culture and the Protection of Cultural Products in Africa / Michael BlakeneyPart 2: Case Studies 7. Cameroon : Oku White Honey / Terry Coulet in collab. with Marcelin Tonye Mahop 8. Ethiopia : fine coffee / Getachew Mengistie. 9. Gabon : Okumé Wood Terry Coulet in collab. with Marcelin Tonye Mahop 10. Ghana: Cocoa / Edgar Tabaro 11. Kenya : tea / Michael Blakeney and Getachev Mengistie 12. Mauritius : sugar / Michael Blakeney 13. Morocco : Argan oil / Sophie Réviron with the collab. af Nafja El Benni 14. Rwanda : coffee 15 / Getachew Mengiste. Uganda : cotton / Getachew Mengistie 16. Senegal yett of joal / Thierry Coulet 17. South Africa : Rooibos tea. / Sophie Réviron with the collab. of Nadja El Benni. 18. Zanzibar / M. Blakeney and G. Mengistie.}, author = {Blakeney, Michael (ed.), and Coulet, Thierry, and Mahop, Marcelin Tonye, and Mengistie, Getachew, and Blakeney, Michael. and Tonye Mahop, Marcelin. and Mazzanti, Massimiliano. and Montini, Anna.}, url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/27346}, title = {Extending the protection of geographical indications : case studies of agricultural products in Africa /}, abstract = {The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African Group of countries has been in the forefront of countries agitating in the World Trade Organization TRIPS Council for the extension of this special protection and of the multilateral register to industries which are of interest to developing countries, primarily agriculture. The so-called "extension ques.}, recid = {27346}, pages = {xi, 361 pages ;}, }