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This publication seeks to identify a balanced approach to the components of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) of genetic resources under the Capacity Development Initiative for Africa for the purpose of making it functional and implementable at both a national and international level. It presents several...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2009
Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) are part of the foundation of agriculture and of central importance to food sovereignty. These gain an increasingly pivotal role in the context of climate crises, which are threatening predictable crop production, and the erosion of agricultural...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2021
FNI Report 1/2017. Benefit sharing is part of the larger concept of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) nested within such international agreements as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the 2010 Nagoya Protocol (NP) and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2017
This paper provides a brief synthesis of our knowledge to date about farmer-managed seed systems, how they contribute to seed and food security, challenges in this regard and how realizing farmers’ rights may help to unfold these potential opportunities for seed and food security. In this context community...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2023
Within the framework of the Genetic Resources Policy Initiative (GRPI-2) project, Bioversity International supported the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire with the objective of strengthening the productive...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Africa
Publication year: N/A