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Guidelines for Selecting Successful GI Products

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This chapter seeks to provide criteria for selecting successful GI products. The discussion makes the point that not all origin based products have the potential to benefit equally from GI development and protection. The authors’ experience in selecting products for inclusion in the research project on which this book is based, but also in the subsequent process of designing industry specific GI strategies for two South African GIs (Rooibos and Karoo lamb), has shown that it is possible to identify certain factors which are predictive of an origin product and/or industry’s ability to benefit from GI protection. Drawing on this experience as well as the international literature this chapter seeks to develop guidelines which can be used in Southern countries for evaluating whether a product has the potential to develop into a successful GI and to harness the potential associated with GI protection.

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    See Chap. 2 for an explanation of the terms PDO and PGI under EU Regulation 510/2006.

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    This is a departure from previous international agreements such as the Lisbon Agreement which made no reference to reputation.

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    Art. 2.1.b.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Cerkia Bramley

  2. French Research Centre on Agriculture for Development (CIRAD), UMR Innovation, Montpellier, France

    Estelle Biénabe

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    Cerkia Bramley

  2. , Direction Générale Déléguée, French Research Centre on Agriculture, Avenue Agropolis TA 179 04, Montpellier cedex 5, 34398, France

    Estelle Bienabe

  3. , Department Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa

    Johann Kirsten

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Bramley, C., Biénabe, E. (2013). Guidelines for Selecting Successful GI Products. In: Bramley, C., Bienabe, E., Kirsten, J. (eds) Developing Geographical Indications in the South. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6748-5_6

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