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Calendar
 In this section you will find
information about events of relevance to Farmers' Rights. Please help us to
keep the section updated, and contact us if
you have information about upcoming events which you think should be
included.
UPCOMING EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
| Biodiversity, hunger and
climate changes: CGIAR and the role of agricultural research |
| Time & place: |
21 August 2012,10:00-13:00, Fridtjof
Nansen Institute, Norway |
| Description: |
This seminar was organized for
stakeholders in Norway to reflect on the current development of CGIAR and
agricultural research in light of Professor Salvatore Ceccarelli's experience
with participatory plant breeding in Syria and other countries. Ceccarelli's
projects were carried out under ICARDA, and thus an important question was
whether lessons could be drawn for the future development of CGIAR. Professor
Ruth Haug from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences made an introduction
to the seminar on the context of the topic. |
| Organizer: |
Fridtjof
Nansen Institute (Norway) |
| More info: |
Program/invitation
Powerpoint presentation by Ruth Haug
(783 kB)
Powerpoint presentation by
Salvatore Ceccarelli (11 432 kB) |
| First SOLIBAM Stakeholder
Congress |
| Time & place: |
19 - 20 April 2012, Rome, Italy |
| Description: |
First SOLIBAM Stakeholder Congress |
| Organizer: |
SOLIBAM
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| More info: |
About the congress |
| Biodiversity in Food
Awards |
| Time & place: |
Deadline for applications: 26 August
2011
Announcement of winners: 29 November - 1 December 2011, Paris,
France |
| Description: |
The 2011 edition of the Union for Ethical
BioTrade's (UEBT) Biodiversity in Food Awards is now open. The awards recognise
companies in the food sector that are pioneering efforts to promote
conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity through their supply
chains. |
| Organizer: |
Union for Ethical BioTrade's (UEBT)
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| More info: |
About the awards |
| International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 2009 |
| Time & place: |
14 - 18 March 2011, Bali, Indonesia |
| Description: |
Fourth Session of the Governing Body of
the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture |
| Organizer: |
FAO |
| More info: |
http://www.planttreaty.org/gbnex_en.htm |
| Global Consultations on
Farmers' Rights |
| Time & place: |
15 March 2011, 18.00, Frangipani meeting
room, Bali, Indonesia |
| Description: |
This is a side event on the 2010 Global
Consultations on Farmers' Rights at the Fourth Session of the Governing Body of
the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture |
| Organizer: |
Institute of Biodiversity Conservation,
Ethiopia (IBC) and Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), Norway |
| More info: |
Invitation |
| Access and Benefit Sharing
under the CBD |
| Time & place: |
10 - 16 July 2010, Montreal, Canada |
| Description: |
The Resumed Ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc
Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 9) aims is to
finalize the International Regime on ABS under the CBD. |
| Organizer (s): |
CBD |
| More info: |
Homepage
Documents
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| Convention on Biological
Diversity |
| Time & place: |
18 - 29 October 2010, Nagoya, Aichi
Prefecture, Japan |
| Description: |
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the
Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10) |
| Organizer (s): |
CBD |
| More info: |
Homepage
Provisional
Agenda
Documents
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| Access and Benefit Sharing
under the CBD |
| Time & place: |
22 - 28 March 2010, Cali, Colombia |
| Description: |
The ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc
Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 9) was the last
scheduled meeting of this group before the COP of the CBD and its aim is to
finalize the International Regime on ABS under the CBD. |
| Organizer (s): |
CBD |
| More info: |
Homepage
Provisional
Agenda
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| Commission on Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture |
| Time & place: |
19 - 23 October 2009, Rome, Italy |
| Description: |
Twelfth Regular Session of the Commission
on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
| Organizer: |
FAO |
| More info: |
Homepage
Invitation
Provisional
agenda |
| 2nd World Seed Conference
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| Time & place: |
8 - 10 September 2009, Rome, Italy |
| Description: |
This event is aimed at policy makers,
government officials, breeding companies, breeders associations, stakeholders
(certification agencies, seed analysts, seed traders, technology companies,
academic institutions), farmers' organisations, consumer organisations and
international breeding and seed research centres |
| Organizer (s): |
FAO, OECD, UPOV, ISF, ISTA |
| More info: |
Homepage
Programme
and presentations |
| Intergovernmental
Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture |
| Time & place: |
15 - 17 July 2009, Rome, Italy |
| Description: |
Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental
Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture of
the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
| Organizer: |
FAO |
| More info: |
Homepage
Invitation
Provisional
agenda |
| Farmers' Rights:
Challenges, Success stories and Ways Forward |
| Time & place: |
2 June 2009, 18.00 - 19.00, Cartage 3,
Barceló Carthage Palace Thalassa Gammarth Hotel, Tunisia |
| Description: |
This is a side event on Farmers' Rights
at the Third Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant
Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
| Organizer: |
Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Norway),
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (Germany) and the
Development Fund (Norway) |
| More info: |
Download the invitation
here. |
| International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 2009 |
| Time & place: |
1 - 5 June 2009, Tunis, Tunisia |
| Description: |
Third Session of the Governing Body of
the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture |
| Organizer: |
FAO |
| More info: |
www.planttreaty.org/meetings/gb3_en.htm
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| Workshop on Nordic
domesticated cereals |
| Time & place: |
10 - 11 March 2009, Roskilde,
Denmark |
| Description: |
Chefs, bakers, farmers and experts form
all of Scandinavia will meet up and discuss opportunities and ideas for New
Nordic cereals. |
| Organizer: |
Forum for Nordic domesticated
cereals |
| More info: |
www.gastronordisk.net |
| Open seminar on Farmers'
Rights to crop diversity and genetic resources in Norway |
| Time & place: |
28 January 2009, Polhøgda,
Norway |
| Description: |
Decision-makers, farmers and other
stakeholders, a total of 60 participants, met at FNI on 28 January to discuss
how farmers' rights under FAO's International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources
for Food and Agriculture can be implemented in Norway. |
| Organizer: |
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, the
Norwegian Genetic Resource Centre and the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and
Food. |
| More info: |
Program (in
Norwegian)
Presentations
and information from the seminar (in Norwegian) |
| Terra Madre 2008 |
| Time & place: |
23 - 27 October 2008, Turin, Italy |
| Description: |
The world's largest gathering of
farmers |
| Organizer: |
Slow Food |
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| WIPO IGC-13 |
| Time & place: |
13 -17 October 2008, Geneva,
Switzerland |
| Description: |
The thirteenth session of the
Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources,
Traditional Knowledge and Folklore of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) |
| Organizer: |
WIPO |
| More info: |
Tel: +41-22-338-8161
Fax:
+41-22-338-8120
E-mail: grtkf@wipo.int
Web:
www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=16204
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| Agricultural Biodiversity:
Implementing Farmers' Rights in practice |
| Time & place: |
22 May 2008, 13:15-14:45, Maritim Hotel,
Bonn, Germany |
| Description: |
This is a side event at CBD COP 9, where
a workshop module on Farmers' Rights and the results of a project collecting
Farmers' Rights success stories will be presented. The side event will also
mark the launching of the new Farmers’ Rights website
www.farmersrights.org. |
| Organizers: |
Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Norway),
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (Germany) and the
Development Fund (Norway) |
| More info: |
Program/invitation
Report |
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