2019 World Food Law Symposium
Tue, May 21
|Cosmos Club
Gastro-tourism, together with geographical indications (GIs), provide a valuable opportunity for using a combination of local foods and tourism to preserve food heritage and sustainable livelihoods. The 2019 World Food Law Symposium will explore this potentially beneficial link.


Time & Location
May 21, 2019, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA
About the event
2019 World Food Law Symposium - Geographical Indications and Gastro-Tourism: Possibilities for Local Development
The World Food Law Institute (WFLI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) invite you to the 2019 World Food Law Symposium featuring trends and case studies examining possibilities for local development when GIs are combined with gastro-tourism. A GI, a form of intellectual property, identifies a good as originating in a territory, region or locality where a quality, reputation or other characteristic of the good is “essentially attributable to its geographical origin”. Gastro-tourism together with GIs provide a valuable opportunity for using a combination of local foods and tourism to preserve food heritage and sustainable livelihoods. This year’s World Food Law Symposium will explore this potentially beneficial link.
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The World Food Law Institute fosters the analysis and understanding of international agricultural and food law, regulations and policy. The Institute uses a…