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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

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    The Inventory

    This online version of the Inventory presents, for each measure, the title and a brief description with information on implementing organization(s), start year, objectives, core elements, key outcomes, and, if applicable, lessons learned. It thus allows users to quickly identify those examples that may be of interest to them. A hyperlink to the original submission is provided, which includes additional information, such as on the history and context of the presented measure, challenges encountered, or target groups reached. In this way, users can get a more comprehensive idea of the measure in question and the specific context for which it was developed.
     
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    Number of records: 235

    201) Draft national legislation on plant genetic resources in Sudan (2016)

    The proposed national legislation on plants drafted in 2011 by a task force of technical and legal experts formed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The draft legislation was then submitted to the concerned authorities in the Ministry of Justice in 2016 for further procedures and to the cabinet of ministers for approval. The draft legislation is aimed at: conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA to enhance food security and other public goods; facilitate access to PGRFA; equitable and fair sharing of benefits arising from the use of the PGRFA; and protection of farmer and community rights related to PGRFA. Chapter V, Section 35 refers specifically to the protection of Farmers’ Rights. It allows registration of new plant varieties developed and cultivated by farmers and protection of traditional knowledge associated with PGRFA. It further includes provisions on equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of PGRFA and enables farmers to participate in decision-making at the national level in relation to the conservation of PGRFA and on conservation, use, exchange and sale of seeds and propagating materials of farmers' varieties. The draft legislation, once enacted, would realize Farmers’ Rights.

    Category: 10.Legal measures for the implementation of Farmers’ Rights, such as legislative measures related to PGRFA.

    Type of measure/practice: Legal

    202) Competitive fund of the Ministry of Agriculture of Chile to support innovation in the agricultural, agrifood and forestry sector

    The Foundation for Agricultural Innovation (FIA) is an agency of Chile’s Ministry of Agriculture, whose mission is to foster a culture of innovation in the agricultural, agri-food and forestry sectors by promoting, articulating and supporting initiatives by people and organizations that contribute to improving the livelihoods of farmers in all regions of the country. Main areas of work include, for example, sustainable agriculture, climate change adaptation, organic farming, agroecology and healthy food. Initiatives working in such areas can apply for competitive funds based on announcements of FIA and in case of success receive both technical as well as financial support. Through its work, FIA generates and strengthens platforms for collaboration among various actors in the productive sector and facilitates research, teaching, extension, advisory and consulting work, both by public and private actors.

    Category: 2.Financial contributions to support farmers conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA such as contributions to benefit-sharing funds

    Type of measure/practice: Technical; Others

    203) The Three Sisters Project

    The ‘Three Sisters’ is an agricultural system in which corn, squash and beans are grown together. This type of system is very old and continues to be used in some communities and family gardens. From 2015 to 2018, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, which is a Department of the Federal Government, in collaboration with the Agricultural Society for Indigenous Food Products, implemented the Three Sisters project. Its main purpose was to study characteristics of varieties of corn, squash and beans and the products derived from them in order to develop added value for indigenous stakeholders, while also studying health benefits. Research activities included studies of traditional knowledge, e.g. on ancestral lineages of the Three Sister crops and their respective seed keepers, combined with studies relating to production, processing and use. Existing instruments identified in Canada were used in the project to select good practices. The project looked for principles, rules and mechanisms that enable Indigenous people to control the circulation of their resources and knowledge at each step of the research project (access, utilization and valorization), and also resulted in new knowledge on health and nutritional benefits and possible ways to protect and preserve genetic material of ancestral crop genetic resources.

    Category: 5.In-situ/on farm conservation and management of PGRFA, such as social and cultural measures, community biodiversity management and conservation sites

    Type of measure/practice: Technical; Administrative

    204) Creation of a micro value-chain for a local variety of rye, the ‘Iermana’

    This measure demonstrates the role that local authorities can play in supporting local development through on-farm conservation of traditional varieties. The objective was to support farming activities in marginal areas, rather than establishing some sort of an ‘open-air museum’. During the period 2013-2014, Agenzia Lucana di Sviluppo ed Innovazione in Agricoltura (ALSIA), an agency of the regional government of the Basilicata region supporting agricultural development and innovation, carried out a survey among farmers of the region to identify rye growers. Four farmers cultivating a total area of 2 ha with an old variety called ‘Iermana’ or ‘Germana’ were identified. In 2018, ALSIA succeeded in registering the local ‘Iermana’ rye variety on the Italian National Seed Catalogue in the ‘Conservation Varieties’ section. Activities for value-chain development allowed to increase the area cultivated with ‘Iermana’ rye from 2 to 15 ha, while the number of farmers cultivating the variety increased from 4 to 30. This success demonstrates the importance of the ‘conservation through use’ approach for the conservation of local PGRFA.

    Category: 3.Approaches to encourage income-generating activities to support farmers’ conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA

    Type of measure/practice: Technical; Administrative

    205) Transfer of technology to farmers and its application for the conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (II)

    From 2015 to 2019, the Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tripoli, in cooperation with Dalia Agricultural Investment Company, supported technology training programme to enhance the knowledge of farmers, to learn and acquire new skills and technologies, to increase their production and to be able to supply the local markerts with high quality products. The programme activities included training of farmers on growing, breeding and pruning fruit trees (e.g. grapes, olives, citrus fruits), so as to improve farm productivity and eventually to increase their household incomes. The training is comprised of inviting 40 to 50 farmers annually plus a number of interested participants from all over the country who were keen to learn fruit trees management. Key outcomes included raising farmers' awareness and learning the importance of the technical and scientific methods of fruit trees management.

    Category: 9.Training, capacity development and public awareness creation

    Type of measure/practice: Technical