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121) The Plants That Feed the World: baseline data and metrics to inform strategies for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (pre-publication)
A pre-publication of the study, “The Plants That Feed the World: baseline data and metrics to inform strategies for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture”, was made available to the Ninth Session of the Governing Body as information document IT/GB-9/22/16.2/Inf.1....
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2022
122) Protection, Promotion, Development and Management of Indigenous Knowledge Act, 2019 (No. 6 of 2019)
Government Gazette No. 42647 This Act provides rules relative to the use of indigenous knowledge, i.e. knowledge which has been developed within an indigenous community and has been assimilated into the cultural and social identity of that community, and includes— (a) knowledge of a functional nature;...
Category: Legislation and policies, Directives
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2018
123) Farmers’ Seed System in Nepal: Review of National Legislations
Seed regulatory frameworks in Nepal were reviewed from the perspective of farmers’ seed systems. Nepal has formulated 17 policy instruments (including draft bills) since 1988 when the first Seed Act came into effect. Of these, 16 are either on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, or on...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2017
124) Implementing the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) in light of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP)
This Briefing Paper explains how the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) complements the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), in particular its Article 9 on Farmers’ Rights, and how their...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Africa; Asia; Europe; Global; Latin America and the Caribbean; Near East; North America; South West Pacific
Publication year: 2022
125) Seed law in Argentina: vicissitudes of a reform that (still) was not
There have been various attempts to modify the Seed Law in Argentina since 2003. The intention is to provide greater certainty to the companies by cutting the rights of rural producers. A new impulse, with the same orientation, occurred in 2012. Although not all the actors involved have participated...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2017