Ensuring farmers' participation in the implementation process is crucial for at least three reasons.

The awareness of Farmers' Rights and their importance for food security and poverty eradication is marginal in most countries.

The issue of Farmers' Rights was addressed during the negotiations leading to the Convention on Biological Diversity as well as in the Agenda 21, both adopted in 1992. These were important points of reference for later negotiations towards the International Treaty.

The first use of Farmers' Rights as a political concept dates back to the early 1980s, when Pat Roy Mooney and Cary Fowler of the then Rural Advancement Foundation International (now ETC-Group) coined the term to highlight the valuable but unrewarded contributions of farmers to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.

This article summarizes some of the most important aspects of the history of Farmers' Rights. You can read more about them in the other articles under History of Farmers' Rights.

Here, you will find a collection of relevant resources on Farmers' Rights, including peer-reviewed articles and books, central reports, as well as links to websites and other resources. This is still work in progress and we will continue posting publications and links from our lists in the coming months. Please contact us if you have information about literature, websites, or other resources which you deem relevant for this overview

1989 marks a breakthrough for the negotiations on Farmers' Rights in the FAO. The FAO Conference adopted two resolutions on Farmers' Rights, one of which should provide an important basis for all further negotiations.

Here you will find a list of relevant peer reviewed articles and books, as well as central reports, about topics relevant to Farmers’ Rights. These are topics that are often associated with the realization of Farmers’ Rights or which affect such realization and where there is substantial literature. The topics and lists are not exhaustive but seek to cover some of the central literature.

Here, you will find a list of relevant peer-reviewed articles and books, as well as central reports on Farmers' Rights that apply a global focus or conceptual perspective. The resources are organized chronologically, the newest addition first.

Support farmers’ conservation, management and sustainable use of PGRFA through targeted emergency assistance.

This is the eleventh category of options to encourage, guide and promote the realization of Farmers’ Rights in the Options Document. It comprises options for other measures/practices.

Realize Farmers' Rights within the national legislation, administrative and policy framework relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA.