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FARMERS' RIGHTS |
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Farmers' Rights in ITPGRFA |
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On the
International Treaty |
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Central
provisions on Farmers' Right |
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Follow-up in
the Treaty's Governing Body |
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Call for
Proposals to the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty on Plant
Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
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Why Farmers' Rights matter |
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The
agricultural biodiversity argument |
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The poverty
eradication argument |
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Farmers'
realities as context |
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The contents of Farmers' Rights |
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Two approaches
to Farmers' Rights |
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Approaches to
protecting farmers' traditional knowledge |
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Approaches to
ensuring equitable benefit sharing |
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Approaches to
ensuring farmers' participation in decision-making |
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Approaches to
farmers' customary use of propagating material |
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Conditions for
the combination of approaches |
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Towards a
common ground of understanding |
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What this may
mean in practice |
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The
history of Farmers' Rights in the FAO |
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The history
of Farmers' Rights in overview |
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First use of
Farmers' Rights |
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Origin of
the concept in FAO |
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FR in the
Keystone Dialogues |
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Conference
resolutions on FR |
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CBD and
Agenda 21 on Farmers' Rights – and the response of the FAO |
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Global Plan
of Action and State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources |
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Breakthrough
of the negotiations |
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Farmers' Rights in the
literature |
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Civil Society Organizations' approaches to
Farmers' Rights |
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| STATE OF
FARMERS' RIGHTS |
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State
of Farmers' Rights per topic |
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Farmers' Rights and
protection of traditional knowledge |
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Farmers' Rights to
equitable benefit sharing |
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Farmers' Rights and
participation in decision processes |
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Farmers' Rights to
save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed |
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State of Farmers' Rights per
country |
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Africa |
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- Ethiopia |
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Asia |
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- India |
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The
Americas |
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- Peru |
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Oceania |
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Europe |
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- Norway |
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Key
barriers to Farmers' Rights |
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Stakeholder
perceptions on barriers to the realization of Farmers' Rights |
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Barriers to
upholding and developing legal space for Farmers' Rights |
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Barriers to
incentives, rewards and recognition |
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Barriers to
farmers' participation in decision-making |
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Options for realizing Farmers' Rights |
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| FARMERS' RIGHTS LEGISLATION & POLICY
DATABASE |
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Legislation categories |
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Africa |
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African
Union |
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Algeria |
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Angola |
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Botswana |
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etc. |
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Asia |
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ASEAN |
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Afghanistan |
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Armenia |
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Azerbaijan |
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Bangladesh |
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etc. |
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The Americas |
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Andean
Community |
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Argentina |
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Barbados |
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Belize |
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etc. |
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Oceania |
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Australia |
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New
Zealand |
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Europe |
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European
Union |
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Austria |
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Belarus |
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Bulgaria |
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etc. |
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| HOW TO REALIZE FARMERS' RIGHTS AT THE
NATIONAL LEVEL |
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Step 1: Creating and enhancing
awareness on the importance of Farmers' Rights |
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Creating
awareness in central organizations and institutions |
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Creating
awareness sector wise |
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Creating
awareness across sectors |
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Creating
awareness through the media |
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Creating
awareness through other means |
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Step 2: Ensuring farmers'
participation in the implementation process |
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Who are
the farmers who should be included in the processes? |
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How do
we identify their representatives? |
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Who
should actually identify such representatives? |
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How can
farmers' participation in the implementation process be ensured? |
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Step 3: Developing a national
consultative process, joining forces, pooling resources |
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Consultative process as dialogue
– the foundation |
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Participants for national
consultative processes |
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Design
of national consultative processes |
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Contents
of national consultative processes |
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Joining
forces and pooling resources |
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Step 4: Establishing an institutional
framework for implementation |
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Step 5: Protecting and enhancing
legal space for farmers' customary practices |
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Step
6: Protecting traditional knowledge relevant to crop genetic
resources |
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Step 7: Promoting the right to
equitably participate in benefit sharing |
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Step 8: Enabling participation in
decision making on genetic resources |
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Workshop module for free
use |
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| BEST PRACTICES |
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What is a 'success story' of
Farmers' Rights? |
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What are successes regarding the
right to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed? |
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What are successes regarding
traditional knowledge related to agro-biodiversity? |
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What are successes regarding
benefit sharing? |
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What are successes regarding
participation in decision making? |
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Success stories from the
realization of the right to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved
seed |
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India's Protection of Plant
Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act |
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Norway's 'no' to stricter plant
breeders' rights |
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Circumventing the law in the Basque
Country |
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Success stories on traditional
knowledge related to agro-biodiversity |
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Cataloguing potatoes and traditional
knowledge in Peru |
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In
situ conservation in Switzerland |
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Community Registry in the
Philippines |
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Rediscovering traditional knowledge
in Norway |
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Success stories on
benefit-sharing measures |
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Creating incentive
structures from the ground in the Philippines |
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Community Seed Fairs in
Zimbabwe |
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Community gene banking
and on-farm conservation in India |
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Dynamic Conservation and
Participatory Plant Breeding in France |
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Participatory Plant
Breeding adding value in Nepal |
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Capacity-building for
seed potato selection in Kenya |
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The Peruvian Potato
Park |
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Rewarding best practices
in Norway |
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Success stories on
participation in decision-making |
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Successful advocacy for
Farmers' Rights in Nepal |
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Assessing Farmers'
Rights in Malawi |
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Common features |
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| IMPLEMENTING FARMERS' RIGHTS
INTERNATIONALLY |
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| RESOURCES |
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A summary of the literature on Farmers'
Rights |
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Major works on Farmers' Rights –
global level |
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Articles and book chapters on
Farmers' Rights – global level |
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Major works and articles on farmers'
rights – regional and national levels |
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Other literature of relevance for
Farmers' Rights |
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Background literature on
intellectual property rights |
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Background literature on the
International Treaty |
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Other
background literature on the management of plant genetic resources |
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| THE
FARMERS' RIGHTS PROJECT |
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Why a
project on Farmers' Rights? |
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The first phase of the Farmers' Rights
Project |
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The
History of Farmers' Rights, a Guide to Central Documents and
Literature |
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An
International Stakeholder Survey on Farmers' Rights |
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Case
studies on Farmers' Rights |
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Farmers'
Rights in Peru |
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Farmers'
Rights in India |
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Farmers'
Rights in India |
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Farmers'
Rights in Norway |
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Results
from the first phase of the Farmers' Rights Project as of 2006 |
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A
side-event presenting preliminary findings from the Farmers' Rights
project |
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The second phase of the Farmers' Rights
Project |
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The
Lusaka informal international consultation process on Farmers' Rights |
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Side
Event on Farmers' Rights at the Second Session of the Governing Body |
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Website
on Farmers' Rights |
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Workshop
Module on Farmers' Rights |
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Report on
Success Stories from the Realization of Farmers' Rights |
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Side
event on Farmers' Rights at the Conference of the Parties to the CBD |
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Book on
Success Stories from the Realization of Farmers' Rights |
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Research
project on civil society strategies for the implementation of Farmers'
Rights |
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Products from the Farmers' Rights
Project |
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Partners and funding |
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Who
we are |
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| LINKS |
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International organizations and agreements
relevant to Farmers' Rights |
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Research Institutions working in fields
related to Farmers' Rights |
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NGOs and CSOs working in fields related to
Farmers' Rights |
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Farmers' Organizations |
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Industrial actors |
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