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What are Farmers' Rights
(FR)?
This website is about Farmers' Rights (FR) as
they are addressed in the International
Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Farmers' Rights
are basically about enabling farmers to continue their work as stewards and
innovators of agricultural biodiversity, and about recognizing and rewarding
them for their contribution to the global pool of genetic resources.
Thus, Farmers' Rights are critical to ensuring the conservation and
sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture and consequently
for food security today and in the future. Farmers' Rights are also a
central means in the fight against rural poverty in developing countries.
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About
this website
This website has been developed as a
tool for decision makers, practitioners, and others involved in the realization
of Farmers' Rights. It is also intended as an information source for
researchers and other interested individuals.
Here you will find
information on the history,
legal status and
contents of Farmers' Rights, on the
state of implementation of these rights, and a
comprehensive database on legislation and
policies. You will find concrete recommendations on how to go about implementing Farmers' Rights in your own
country, including a workshop
module for free use and success
stories from all over the world. The prospects for
implementing Farmers' Rights
internationally are also discussed, and you will find overviews of
literature and organizations related to Farmers' Rights, a
calendar of coming events, and answers to
'frequently asked questions' (FAQ).
This
is the official website of the Farmers' Rights
Project of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute
(FNI), brought to you with the support of the sectorial GTZ project
People, Food and Biodversity which is
implemented on behalf of the German BMZ.
Responsible for the contents of
www.farmersrights.org is FNI Senior Research Fellow and Director of the
Farmers' Rights Project, Regine Andersen. Contact details >
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Note to
our users:
The Farmers' Rights website depends on input from
you. Please help us keep the site updated by letting us know about new
developments related to Farmers' Rights. Contact details >
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Latest
website additions:
(09.09.2008) Added new book by Regine
Andersen (2008): Governing
Agrobiodiversity: Plant Genetics and Developing Countries (Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate)
(08.08.2008) Added European
Commission Directive 2008/62/EC on seed
(08.08.2008) Added new
report by Adhikari, Kamalesh (2008): Intellectual Property Rights in
Agriculture: Legal Mechanisms to Protect Farmers' Rights in Nepal
(Kathmandu: Forum for Protection of Public Interest (PRO PUBLIC) and South
Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment (SAWTEE))
(13.06.2008)
added Report from the CBD-COP9
side-event 'Implementing Farmers' Rights in
Practice'
(11.06.2008) New report on success stories from the
realization of Farmers' Rights published
(22.05.2008) Website
launched
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