Blogging Biodiversity

Blogging Biodiversity

International negotiations from a personal perspective

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Publications

See also my page on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN)

Articles

K. Garforth and C. Frison, “Key Issues for the Relationship Between the Convention on Biological Diversity & the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture” (July 2007) Occasional Paper 2, Quaker International Affairs Programme.

K. Garforth and P. Ainslie, “When Worlds Collide: Biotechnology meets Organic Farming in Hoffman v. Monsanto” (2006) 18 Journal of Environmental Law 459.

K. Garforth, “Health Care and Access to Patented Technologies” (2005) 13 Health Law Journal 77.

J. Cabrera & K. Garforth, “Sustainable Biodiversity Law: Global Access, Local Benefits” (2005) ICFAI Journal of Environmental Law.

K. Garforth et al., “Case Note: Percy Schmeiser and Schmeiser Enterprises Ltd v. Monsanto Canada Inc. and Monsanto Company” (2004) 13(3) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 340.

K. Garforth, “Canadian ‘Medical Necessity’ and the Right to Health” (2003) 8:3 Canadian HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review 63.
• Read as part of a pdf.

Book Chapters

K. Garforth, “Life as Chemistry or Life as Biology? An Ethic of Patents on Genetically Modified Organisms” in J. Gibson (ed.) Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).

S. Bragdon, K. Garforth & J.E. Haapala Jr., “Safeguarding Biodiversity: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)” in G. Tansey & T. Rajotte (eds.) The Future Control of Food: A guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security (London: Earthscan, 2008).
• You can get the book for free online from the International Development Research Centre.

K. Garforth & J. Cabrera, “Legal Reform for the Development and Implementation of Measures on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing” in T.W. McInerney (ed.) Searching for Success: Narrative Accounts of Legal Reform in Developing and Transition Countries (Rome: International Development Law Organization, 2006).
• View the abstract of the book or order or download the book for free here.

M. Prabhu & K. Garforth, “International Public Health and Trade Law” in M.W. Gehring & M.C. Cordonier Segger (eds.) Sustainable Developments in World Trade Law and Jurisprudence (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2005).

J. Cabrera & K. Garforth, “Global Access, Local Benefits: An International Regime?” in M.C. Cordonier Segger & Judge C.G. Weeramantry (eds.) Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004).

K. Garforth, “When Biosafety Becomes Binding” in M.C. Cordonier Segger & Judge C.G. Weeramantry (eds.) Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004).

J. Cabrera & K. Garforth, “Sustainable International Biodiversity Law” in M.C. Cordonier Segger & A. Khalfan (eds.) Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practices and Prospects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

CISDL Legal Briefs, Working Papers & Reports

K. Garforth et al., Overview of the National and Regional Implementation of Measures on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit- Sharing (CISDL report for Environment Canada, December 2005).
• Download the large pdf (2.4 MB) or the small pdf (624 KB). (They’re both the same except that the small file excludes the graphics of the front cover.)

K. Garforth, “An Overview of the Implementation of National and Regional ABS Measures in Eastern and Southern Africa” (Prepared for GTZ as an outcome of the Regional ABS Capacity-Building Workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa, October 2005).

K. Garforth, “Balancing Industry Confidentiality with the Public Right of Access: The Case of Biotechnology in Canada” (CISDL Working Paper prepared for the Consortium for European Studies’ Colloquium on ‘A Citizen’s Right to a Clean Environment’, September 2005).
• View as html or as a pdf.
• Download the PowerPoint slides from my presentation at the colloquium.

K. Garforth et al., “Biosafety Scoping Study” (CISDL report for IDRC, April 2005).

M. Endicott, C. Frison & K. Garforth, “Innovations in Biosafety Law: A CISDL Working Paper” (CISDL, 2005).

K. Garforth & J. Cabrera, “Sustainable Biodiversity Law: Global Access, Local Benefits. A Scoping Study on Future Research Priorities for Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit- Sharing” (CISDL report for IDRC, June 2004).

K. Garforth & J. Cabrera, “Sustainable Biodiversity Law: Global Access, Local Benefits” (CISDL Research Paper, December 2003).

K. Garforth, “When Biosafety Becomes Binding: Marking the Entry into Force of the UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety” (CISDL Legal Brief, September 2003).

K. Garforth et al., “Sharing Nature’s Wealth: Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing” (CISDL Legal Brief, March 2003).