Placing biodiversity in trust for the future: Bioversity Impact Assessment
23 March 2011 | Permalink [1]
Plant genetic resources are the foundation on which our food supplies are based. Over the centuries they have been freely collected and exchanged by farmers, breeders and researchers, and are becoming increasingly important to help meet global challenges such as food security and climate change.
However recent changes in the legislative environment threatened to place restrictions on the flow of plant genetic resource material and raised questions about the ownership of genebank collections.
The second in our series of impact assessment briefs examines the influence of the ‘In Trust’ agreements set up by Bioversity in response to these changes. The agreements aimed to create a legal framework within which important collections held by the CGIAR network [2] could not only be protected but also remain accessible to the global community. [Read more] [3]
Similar posts:
- New online learning tool - International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture [4]
- Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security - a new publication [5]
- Users assess the impact of Bioversity's Banana Transit Centre [6]
- Cacao: yesterday, today and tomorrow [7]
- New Routledge book - Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons [8]
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- [5] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/archived/plant_genetic_resources_and_food_security_a_new_publication.html
- [6] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/archived/users_assess_the_impact_of_bioversitys_banana_transit_centre.html
- [7] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/cacao_yesterday_today_and_tomorrow.html
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