Basically, realizing Farmers' Rights means enabling farmers to maintain and develop crop genetic diversity, and recognizing and rewarding them for this indispensable contribution to the global pool of genetic resources and to local and global food security.
This website has been developed as a tool for decision makers, practitioners and others involved in the realization of Farmers’ Rights as they are addressed in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. It is also an information source for researchers, journalists, and other interested individuals. The website is hosted by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute Norway and is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
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Important work is being carried out between the sessions of the Plant Treaty’s Governing Body to prepare the ground for negotiations and the adoption of resolutions on Farmers’ Rights. These inter-sessional processes contribute to framing the topics of negotiation and creating common ground of understanding among parties and stakeholders. This has been decisive to the results achieved by the Governing Body. Here you can read about relevant processes between the sessions of the Treaty’s Governing Body.
This biennium was characterized by the development of Options for Encouraging, Guiding and Promoting the Realization of Farmers’ Rights by the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights based on the Inventory presented and welcomed during the Eight Session of the Plant Treaty’s Governing Body.
How can you proceed to promote Farmers' Rights in your country, according to the provisions in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture? A set of options for the realization of Farmers’ Rights may provide guidance. Also, a stepwise approach for the process is offered
At this session, the Governing Body welcomed the inventory of national measures, best practices and lessons learned from the realization of Farmers’ Rights that had been developed and compiled over the past biennium and endorsed an outline for developing options for the realization of these rights.
