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126) 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
127) 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
128) 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
129) 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
130) The Italian landrace conservation strategy
In Italy, as in most of the countries of Europe, a rapid decline of agro-biodiversity is taking place, the decline is due mainly to a series of economic and institutional factors. In addition, traditional crop varieties, generally known as ‘landraces’ (LR) were rapidly and widely substituted by modern...
Category: Strategies and Action Plans
Regions: Europe
Publication year: N/A