Stakeholder’s Meeting
Porvorim, Goa
5th April 2008
Dwijen Rangnekar
Research Councils UK Academic Fellow and Asst. Professor in Law
CSGR/Warwick
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Project title: Localising economic control
through clubs: Examining the intellectual
property protection of Feni
Funding Agency: Economic and Social
Research Council (of UK govt.)
Project location: Warwick University, UK
Research Advisory Group
Fr. Romuald D'SOUZA
Octavio ESPINOSA
Founder Director, Goa Institute of
Management,
Director, Legislative and Legal
Advice Division, World Intellectual
Property Organisation
T.C. JAMES
S.K. SOAM
Director, Department of Industrial,
Senior Scientist, of Agricultural
Policy and Promotion, Government of Research Management, Hyderabad
India
Jorge Larson
GUERRA
Comisión Nacional Para el
Conocimiento y Uso de la
Biodiversidad (Conabio).
David Vivas-EUGUI
Deputy Programme Director,
International Centre for Trade and
Sustainable Development
Sarah J. WHATMORE
Professor of Environment and Public
Policy, Oxford Centre for the
Environment, Oxford Uni
Principal Investigator
Dwijen RANGNEKAR
Research Assistant
VC NAMBALA
Warwick University
Warwick University
Local Research Team
Pranab
MUKHOPADHYAY
Santosh MAURYA
Suryabhan MOURYA
SHODH
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Research Methods
Baseline survey
Interviews
Focus groups
Stakeholder meeting
Archival research
Legal research; case law
Economic analysis
Geographical Indications as Clubs ~ defined
by the shared production method
Raw
Materials
Land
Animal breed
Feed
Plants
Skills
Production and/or
Processing
Stage(s)
Distilling, blending
Curing, pasteurisation
and ripening
Harvesting
Handicrafts
Final
Product
Stage
Labels of
Authenticity
Thus, potential to localise economic control
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Area: defined in 1927 regulation, approx. 3% of
area under vine production in France, about
33,000 hectares in 319 villages around Reims
Grape varieties: only three varieties permitted
Production and processing rules: some 35 rules
on yields, pruning vines, growing and spacing
of vines, hand-harvesting, aging process, etc.
Quality control: through production and into
post-production stages; 2000 – 5% not certified
13 Mar 08 – change in growing area, new areas
included see property rents rise from
€5,000/hectare to €1Mn/hectare
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Making the club
Incentives to join ~ clubs have membership rules and allow
exclusion
Physical interdependence ~ stakeholders depend on the same
resource for livelihood
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Matrix of competition
Horizontal competition for market shares
Vertical competition for share of rents
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Different motivations to ‘make the club’
Inertia of stable transaction relations
Inability to appropriate returns
Size of operation
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Club-Making
How do different firms and individuals cooperate to
make a GI-club? What factors motivate firms and
individuals to overcome problems and cooperate?
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Localising economic control
How can the potential for GIs to localise economic
control be maximised and are there other policy
interventions that may help achieving these
outcomes?
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Final Report & Policy Brief
Focussing on the problems in establishing GI specifications
for Feni and how these specifications may promote localised
economic control; thus, identifying complementary policies
to achieve local economic control.
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Baseline Survey of the Feni Sector
Involving 600+ questionnaires of stakeholders, identifying
broad patterns throughout the supply chain for Feni of
social and economic indicators.
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Scholarly articles
Newspaper articles
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Fieldwork
April-July 2007: interviews, focus group, baseline survey
April-May 2008: interviews, stakeholder meeting
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RAG Meetings
First: April 2008
Second: January 2009 (tbc)
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Research Report
Draft: Nov. 2008
Final: Feb. 2009
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Project Dissemination Meetings
Goa – March 2009 (tbc)
Geneva – April 2009 (tbc)
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Project Website
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/research/proje
cts/2007/protecting_feni/
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Contact details
Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Telephone Goa/Delhi : 9970939193/9891267714
Telephone UK: +44 +24 7652 8906
Email: d.rangnekar@warwick.ac.uk