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Plant genetic resources (PGR) for food and agriculture are the basis of world food security. Access by farmers and plant breeders everywhere to the widest possible range of plant germplasm is of crucial importance for crop improvement, for confronting environmental and agricultural challenges such as...
Category: Miscellaneous
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2013
The Guidelines for the Coordinated Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol in Africa provides a practical step by step guidance for the implementation of the Protocol and for an ABS system at national and regional levels. This document sets out the Guidelines as adopted and constitutes an appendix of the...
Category: Voluntary guidelines
Regions: Africa
Publication year: 2015
Crop wild relatives thrive in their natural habitats without human intervention. In fact, they are continuously evolving adaptive characteristics that enable them to cope with changing environmental conditions. Therefore, they are a rich reservoir of novel traits and genes that can be used to develop...
Category: Voluntary guidelines
Regions: Global
Publication year: 2017
Final draft as of March 2019 of the "Sustainable SocioEconomic Development through the Commercialization of Organic Farming" - National Organic Programme, ARDC-Yusipang, Department of Agriculture Ministry of Agriculture and Forests.
Category: Strategies and Action Plans
Regions: Asia
Publication year: 2019
In April 2004, the Council of the European Union established a Community programme on the conservation, characterisation, collection and utilisation of genetic resources in agriculture. Also available in French and...
Category: Legislation and policies, Directives
Regions: Europe
Publication year: 2004