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Photo: Reseau Semences Paysannes (RSP)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

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) is 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


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


PAST EVENTS

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
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
Registration
Programme


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


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
More info: www.terramadre2008.org/pagine/welcome.lasso?n=en


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


Let's Liberate Diversity IV
Time & place: 10 - 12 October 2008, Ascoli, Marche region, Italy
Description: The fourth meeting of a European coordination of networks working on the issue of seeds.
Organizer: Rete Semi Rurali
More info: Detailed desription (PDF)
www.semirurali.net
www.semencespaysannes.org
www.redsemillas.info


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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