Browse by Category: Policy & Law

 

World Scientists Define United Approach to Tackling Food Insecurity

An independent commission of scientific leaders from 13 countries has today released a detailed set of 7 recommendations to policy makers on how to achieve food security in the face of climate change. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT)

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Marking 10 years of the International Treaty

'A promising start but more to be done' - the general consensus agreed at an international event held in Rome to mark 10 years of the International Treaty of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

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Collective policy action to safeguard food security

Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security book launched during FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - 21 July 2011

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The Nagoya Protocol for the rest of us

It will take time for the true worth of the newly agreed Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing to become known. In the meantime, the head of Bioversity’s Policy & Law Unit offers some thoughts.

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Bioversity welcomes Nagoya Protocol

A new Protocol on access and benefit sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity was agreed at the last minute during marathon negotiations at COP 10 in Nagoya, Japan. Bioversity International broadly welcomes the new protocol.

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Access and Benefit Sharing - An update on the protocol negotiations

Latest developments on access and benefit sharing as the October deadline for concluding negotiations at COP10 gets closer.

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The Treaty and the CGIAR Centres

On 16 October, 2006 - World Food Day - the eleven CGIAR Centres which hold ex situ collections of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) signed agreements

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The Treaty's multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing

Governments negotiating the Convention on Biological Diversity realized that the Convention was not appropriate, for example, for the existing ex situ collections of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture held around the world

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A brief history of the Treaty

For thousands of years there were no international laws governing genetic resources. Farmers and plant breeders were free to exchange seeds and plant propagating material

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Access & Benefit Sharing

Regulations concerning access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits associated with their use are of are of vital interest to the global community.

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The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

The International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture was adopted by FAO in 2001. Bioversity played an important role in the negotiation of the Treaty.

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Peru moves to mainstream agricultural biodiversity

A recent meeting in Lima, Peru, ended with a joint commitment by the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment to collaborate on the greater use of Peru's agricultural biodiversity to enhance its economic and social development.

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Policy & Law

Bioversity's work in Policy and Law is intended to create a legislative environment that enables and supports the use of genetic resources.

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