Placing biodiversity 'in trust' for the future: Bioversity impact assessment
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, helping to meet global challenges such as food security and climate change.
However changes in the legislative environment threatened to place restrictions on the flow of plant genetic resource material.
The Convention on Biological Diversity [1] which came into force in 1993 recognised the rights of sovereign states over their natural resources, asserting their rights to control access to biological diversity within their territories creating uncertainty about the ownership and future security of the collections.
The second in our series of impact assessment publications examines the influence of ‘In Trust’ agreements set up by Bioversity in 1994 in response to these changes in the legislative environment. The agreements aimed to establish a legal framework within which the 11 genebank collections [2] maintained by the CGIAR network [3]could not only be protected but also ensure that collections remained available for the benefit of the world community. These genebanks represent around 10% of the world's plant genetic resource collections.
The study focuses on the International Rice Collection held at the International Rice Research Institute [4]
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