ESRC Project on Geographical Indications and Feni

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ESRC Project on Geographical Indications and Feni

• Stakeholders Meeting
• Porvorim, Goa
• 5th April 2008

Dwijen Rangnekar Research Councils UK Academic
Fellow and Asst. Professor in Law CSGR/Warwick
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Introduction to the Project

• 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

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The Research Team
Research Advisory Group Research Advisory Group Research Advisory Group
Fr. Romuald D'Souza Founder Director, Goa Institute of Management, Octavio ESPINOSA Director, Legislative and Legal Advice Division, World Intellectual Property Organisation Jorge Larson GUERRA Comisión Nacional Para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (Conabio).
T.C. JAMES Director, Department of Industrial, Policy and Promotion, Government of India S.K. SOAM Senior Scientist, of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad 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 Warwick University Research Assistant VC NAMBALA Warwick University Local Research Team Pranab MUKHOPADHYAY Santosh Maurya Suryabhan Mourya SHODH
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The Research Methodology

• Research Methods
• Baseline survey
• Interviews
• Focus groups
• Stakeholder meeting
• Archival research
• Legal research case law
• Economic analysis

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Research Approach

• Geographical Indications as Clubs defined by
  the shared production method

Raw Materials Land Animal breed Feed Plants Skill
s
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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The Champagne Club
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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Research Approach

• Making the club
• Incentives to join clubs have membership rules
  and allow exclusion
• Physical interdependence stakeholders depend on
  the same resource for livelihood
• Matrix of competition
• Horizontal competition for market shares
• Vertical competition for share of rents
• Different motivations to make the club
• Inertia of stable transaction relations
• Inability to appropriate returns
• Size of operation

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Research Questions

• 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?
• 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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Project Outputs

• 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.
• 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.
• Scholarly articles
• Newspaper articles

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Research Timeline

• Fieldwork
• April-July 2007 interviews, focus group,
  baseline survey
• April-May 2008 interviews, stakeholder meeting
• RAG Meetings
• First April 2008
• Second January 2009 (tbc)
• Research Report
• Draft Nov. 2008
• Final Feb. 2009
• Project Dissemination Meetings
• Goa March 2009 (tbc)
• Geneva April 2009 (tbc)

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More information

• Project Website
• http//www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/research/pr
  ojects/2007/protecting_feni/
• 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_at_warwick.ac.uk