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131) 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
132) 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
133) 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
134) Access and benefit sharing, farmers’ rights and plant breeders’ rights: reflections on the African Model Law
This article discusses the protection of new plant varieties in Africa and the African Model Law through the lens of its key protagonist, Professor Johnson Ekpere. It urges African countries to consult the African Model Law as a guide when designing plant variety protection systems. It is hoped that...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2019
135) Law No. 28216: Law on the Protection of Access to Peruvian Biological Diversity and the Collective Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples
The purpose of the present Law is to provide protection for access to Peruvian biological diversity and to the collective knowledge of indigenous peoples. Also available in Spanish
Category: Legislation and policies, Directives
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2004