Geographical Indication (GI) options for Ethiopian Coffee and Ghanaian Cocoa

African Patent Offices Not Fit for Purpose
No responses were received from eight countries: Botswana, Comoros, Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), Djibouti, Mauritania, Niger, São Tomé and Principe
and Swaziland.
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