This is the fifth category of options to encourage, guide and promote the realization of Farmers’ Rights in the Options Document. It comprises options for in situ/on-farm conservation and management of PGRFA, such as social and cultural measures, community biodiversity management and conservation sites.

Recognize, collect and document traditional knowledge on PGRFA, including knowledge relating to cultivation and use.

Conduct and/or support activities for conserving, sharing and disseminating traditional knowledge relating to PGRFA.

Support farmers and farming communities to develop instruments to govern access to PGRFA over which they have established rights and traditional knowledge associated with PGRFA based on their local practices, procedures and community protocols.

This is the fourth category of options to encourage, guide and promote the realization of Farmers’ Rights in the Options Document. It comprises options for catalogues, registries and other forms of documentation of PGRFA and protection of traditional knowledge.

Conduct and/or support promotional activities to strengthen sustainable consumption for products derived from the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA.

Develop value-chains for local crops, varieties and evolutionary populations with specific adaptation, nutritional value, uses or other benefits.

Create and support markets for products issued from farmers’ varieties/farmers’ seed systems.

This is the third category of options to encourage, guide and promote the realization of Farmers’ Rights in the Options Document. It comprises options for approaches to encourage income-generating activities to support farmers’ conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA.

Provide funds for farmers, farming communities and their organizations who conserve, develop and sustainably use PGRFA, including for capacity development.

This is the second category of options to encourage, guide and promote the realization of Farmers’ Rights in the Options Document. It comprises options for the finantial contributions to support farmers’ conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA such as contributions to benefit-sharing funds.

Contribute voluntarily to the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) of the International Treaty.