Topic summary
Protected Geographical Status
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Geographical indications and traditional specialities in the European Union.
Criticisms of Protected Geographical Status framework
Somewhat paradoxically the PGS framework can be posited as both a protectionist move against global agro-economic policy, and a market-based neoliberal tool of agricultural governance. This makes it an equally important battleground for both the anti-globalization movement, and the free-trade proponents of Australia and the United States, and a number of criticisms of each have been put forward: