International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

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This case study aims to contribute towards developing a policy framework for the commercialization of traditional rice varieties and their products in Nepal. It presents the prospects for commercialization and potential for promoting the marketability of underutilized landraces as well...
Subject area: Policy development, Promoting local crop diversity
Subject category: Developing the value chain
Article or presentation Case study
This website is targeted at decision-makers, practitioners, researchers and others involved in the implementation of Farmers' Rights.
Subject area: Enhancing crop diversity for local needs, Policy development, Promoting local crop diversity
Subject category: Farmers' Rights
Case study Publication or report
This video describes the activities of a project funded by the International Treaty's Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) in Iran involving collaboration between researchers and farmers. Farmers experimented with the cultivation of evolutionary cereal populations comprising diverse seed mixes and...
Subject area: Enhancing crop diversity for local needs
Subject category: Evolutionary plant breeding, Participatory plant breeding
Case study Multimedia
This e-learning course examines the origins of the concept of Farmers' Rights under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.  At the end of this course, you will be able to:  Defend the importance of Farmers' Rights in...
Subject area: Enhancing crop diversity for local needs, Policy development, Promoting local crop diversity
Subject category: Farmers' Rights
Learning material Multimedia
Indigenous farmers from highland communities have founded the "Asociación de Guardianes de Papa Nativa del Centro de Perú" (AGUAPAN), or Native Potato Guardians’ Association of Central Peru, which will contribute to the economic and social well-being of the region’s smallholders...
Subject area: Strengthening seed systems
Subject category: Access and benefit sharing, Farmers' Rights
Article or presentation Case study

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