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26) The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research - Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity
This book shows how social sciences, and more especially law, can contribute towards reconfiguring current legal frameworks in order to achieving a better balance between the necessary requirements of agricultural innovation and the need for protection of agrobiodiversity. On the assumption that the...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2018
27) Voluntary Guide for National Seed Policy Formulation
In many developing countries, there is a lack of adequate seed policies – i.e. principles that guide government action and define the roles of stakeholders. The absence of such policies weakens countries’ capacity to provide smallholders with adequate access to quality seeds of the crops most suited...
Category: Voluntary guidelines
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2015
28) Informal International Consultation on Farmers' Rights 18 -20 September 2007, Zambia
At the First Session of the Governing Body of the Treaty in Madrid, June 2006, Norway proposed that a follow-up to Article 9 on Farmers’ Rights be considered by the Bureau of the Governing Body for possible inclusion at the Second Session; the proposal was widely supported. The Bureau decided to include...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2007
29) In-Situ and Ex-Situ Biodiversity Conservation in Ecuador: A Review of Policies, Actions and Challenges
This review analyzes the national biodiversity policies and describes the main strategies for biodiversity conservation in Ecuador, one of the “mega-diverse” countries in the world with the highest species density. It deepens an analysis of in-situ and ex-situ conservation processes.
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean
Publication year: 2020
30) Implementing Farmers Rights relating to seeds
The concept of Farmers’ Rights recognized the role of farmers as custodians of biodiversity and helped to draw attention to the need to preserve practices that are essential for a sustainable agriculture. This paper examines one particular aspect of such rights. It deals with the component of farmers’...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017