Climate change models may help spur lawmakers to implement seed treaty
17 February 2012 | Permalink [1]
A new Climate Analogues tool can facilitate the understanding of climate change and its impact on agriculture and food security.
A new climate change tool will not only help farmers to prepare for the future, it may also spur implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture [2].
Although 127 countries rushed to ratify the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, far fewer have implemented it in national law. The reasons are many, and one that comes up often is that lawmakers don’t actually understand its importance.
A planning meeting for a new Bioversity project, Strengthening National Capacities to Implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, funded by the Dutch government, heard this over and over again from representatives of the eight countries taking part in the project. But the meeting also heard about a new tool that could help to raise awareness - the Climate Analogue Tool [3].
Read the full blog post by Jeremy Cherfas of Bioversity International on the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) website [4].
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- The Nagoya Protocol for the rest of us [6]
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- Setting standards and best practices for genebank conservation [8]
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http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/climate_change_models_to_encourage_seed_treaty_implementation.html?tx_wecdiscussion[sub]=1Links in this page
- [1] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/index.php?id=5402
- [2] http://www.planttreaty.org/
- [3] http://gismap.ciat.cgiar.org/analogues/
- [4] http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/climate-change-models-may-help-spur-lawmakers-implement-seed-treaty
- [5] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/archived/access_and_benefit_sharing_an_update_on_the_protocol_negotiations.html
- [6] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/archived/the_nagoya_protocol_for_the_rest_of_us.html
- [7] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/international_landscapes_for_people_food_and_nature.html
- [8] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/setting_standards_and_best_practices_for_genebank_conservation.html
- [9] http://ontheroadtorio.org/2012/05/18/understanding_forest_genetic_diversity/
- [10] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/browse_by/category/announcements
- [11] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/browse_by/tag/cgiar
- [12] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/browse_by/tag/ciat
- [13] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/browse_by/tag/climate change
- [14] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/browse_by/tag/food security
- [15] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/browse_by/tag/international treaty