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| FARMERS' RIGHTS IN
ITPGRFA: Global Consultations on Farmers' Rights Global consultations on Farmers' Rights as they are addressed in Article 9 of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture have recently been carried out. The background was a decision made by the Governing Body of the Plant Treaty at its third session (Resolution 6/2009). Here the Governing Body recalls the importance of fully implementing Farmers' Rights, and requests the Secretariat to convene regional workshops on Farmers' Rights to discuss relevant national experiences. The Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway has been assisting the Secretariat in carrying out this task. The consultation process started out in July with the sending out of questionnaires (which can be viewed here), in order to involve as many stakeholders as possible, in all parts of the world. By the deadline on 6 September, 56 questionnaires from 108 respondents had been received. These have been analyzed, and a preliminary report will be made available on this website soon. We would like to thank all respondents for their contributions to the survey! A global consultation conference, with regional components and 52 participants representing a wide range of stakeholders and countries, took place in Addis Ababa 23-25 November 2010. The conference was organized by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, and hosted by the Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, Ethiopia. The results of the global consultation process are presented in an input paper(available also in Spanish and French) submitted by Ethiopia to the Governing Body of the Plant Treaty at its Fourth Session in 2011, as a basis for an agenda item on Farmers' Rigths. In addition, two reports have been published. The first report (FNI Report 1/2011) presents the proceedings of the Consultation Conference, and contains a summary of the findings from the email-based questionnaire survey, while the second report (FNI Report 2/2011) presents the findings from the survey more in detail. The consultations was made possible with the financial support of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the Swedish International Biodiversity Programme (SwedBio), the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Development Fund, Norway, while Ethiopia, through Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (IBC), offered to host the consultation conference. Conference Documents:  Programme from
the Consultation Conference
List of Conference
Participants
Introductory presentation by Regine
Andersen Presentation of the results of the
questionnaire survey by Regine Andersen Presentation by Juliana
Santilli Presentation by Maria Mayer de Scurrah Presentation by Wilhelmina
Pelegrina Presentation by Kent Nnadozie Presentation by Shreeram
Prasad Neopane
Presentation by Patrick
Mulvany
Presentation
by Nyasha Chishakwe Presentation by Robin Pistorius Presentation by Riccardo
Bocci Presentation by Bell
Batta Torheim Input Paper
from the Conference Spanish version
of Input Paper French version
of Input Paper
FNI Report 1/2011 FNI Report
2/2011For more information: Resolution 6/2009
The
Plant Treaty About Farmers'
Rights Pages in this sub-section: FARMERS' RIGHTS IN ITPGRFA On the International
Treaty Central provisions on
Farmers' Rights Follow-up
in the Governing Body of the Treaty The Benefit-Sharing Fund of the
International Treaty New resolution on Farmers' Rights under the
International Treaty Little progress on sustainable use at the Third
Session of the Plant Treaty Global Consultations on Farmers'
Rights The Fourth
Session of the Governing Body |
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