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Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access published online on October 13, 2009
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpp166
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© The Author (2009). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

The great Kenyan coffee crop disaster: a cautionary tale of coffee and counterfeiting

Christopher Wadlow*
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   Catastrophic crop failure caused by fake pesticides
 
Among counterfeiting case histories, few compare to the great Kenyan Coffee crop disaster of 1979–1980. It was quite simply ‘[o]ne of the worst counterfeiting cases on record’.1 Veteran coffee planters, sitting on their verandas and sipping their sundowners, still shiver slightly when it is mentioned, for all that had happened all of 30 years ago. No wonder it continues to stir the feelings and rouse the emotions of those whose memories are still capable of being awakened.

One body which for the best of reasons does not intend to let anyone forget is the International Chamber of Commerce. On 1 February 2008, under the title ‘Perilous Pesticides’, it published this item on its BASCAP website:2

‘Catastrophic crop failure caused by fake pesticides’ is an alarming headline, but it accurately describes an event that took place not last week, but more than a quarter of a century ago! In 1979, a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Coffee: a mainstay of the Kenyan economy
 

   The legislature listens
 

   One of the worst counterfeiting cases on record
 

   The tale the coffee table told
 

   From Kenya to Colorado, where the trail runs out
 

   Threatened with ruin
 

   How the story developed
 

   The versions compared
 

   A tall tale, or an emergent myth?
 
Correspondence: * Professor of Law, Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Email: c.wadlow@uea.ac.uk


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