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IT/GB-9/AHTEG-FR-3/20/Inf.3
July 2020
E
INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
THIRD MEETING OF THE AD HOC TECHNICAL EXPERT GROUP
ON FARMERS’ RIGHTS
Virtual Meeting, 25-28 August 2020
Compilation of the submissions received since the Eighth Session of the
Governing Body on national measures, best practices and lessons learned
from the realization of Farmers’ Rights, as set out in Article 9 of the
International Treaty
1. At its Eighth Session, the Governing Body, through Resolution 6/2019,1 welcomed the
Inventory of National Measures, Best Practices and Lessons Learned from the Realization of Farmers’
Rights (the Inventory).2
2. To continue updating the Inventory, the Secretariat issued a notification inviting inputs from
Contracting Parties and relevant stakeholders to update previous submissions they made on views, best
practices and measures for implementing Article 9 of the International Treaty.3 It also invited
Contracting Parties and relevant stakeholders who could not make any submissions previously to
submit their views, best practices and measures for implementing Farmers’ Rights so that these may
be included in the Inventory.
3. Since the Eighth Session of the Governing Body, the Secretariat received additional
submissions from two Contracting Parties, Brazil and Spain, and from one other interested
stakeholder, Agrecol - Association for AgriCulture and Ecology. The submissions are available at the
following links
Contracting Parties
Brazil, received on 5 May 2020. Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/ca9248en/ca9248en.pdf
Spain, received on 14 May 2020. Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/ca9194en/ca9194en.pdf
Other interested Stakeholder
Agrecol - Association for AgriCulture and Ecology, received on 25 May 2020. Available at:
http://www.fao.org/3/ca9319en/ca9319en.pdf
4. The updated compilation of submissions received from 2019 to date and the respective links to each of them on the Treaty’s Website is contained in Annex 1. 4
1 http://www.fao.org/3/nb784en/nb784en.pdf 2 http://www.fao.org/3/na906en/na906en.pdf 3 http://www.fao.org/3/ca8036en/ca8036en.pdf 4 Also available at: http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty/areas-of-work/farmers-rights/farmers-rights-submissions/en/
IT/GB-9/AHTEG-FR-3/20/Inf.3 2
ANNEX 1
Submissions received (2019-2020)
African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) Civil Society Organization
Exemptions or flexibilities in seed registration for farmers’ varieties 29/07/2019
Public procurement of farmers’ seed varieties for food programs 29/07/2019
Recognition of farmers’ varieties/landraces and voluntary registration 29/07/2019
African Seed Trade Association (AFSTA) Civil Society Organization
Commercialisation of improved crop varieties and Intellectual
property rights/Plant breeders’ rights
31/10/2019
Agrecol - Association for AgriCulture and Ecology Non Profit Association
Protecting seeds as commons with an open-source licence 25/05/2020
Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania Civil Society Organization
Collaborative research to assess germplasm for climate-change
adaptation and food security in mountain areas of Albania
18/06/2019
Alianza Politica Sector de Mujeres (AFEDES) Civil Society Organization
La implementacion de los derechos de los agricultores en Guatemala 25/07/2019
Association for Plant Breeding dor the Benefit of Society
(APBREBES) Civil Society Organization
A human rights impact assessment of UPOV 1991 Plant Variety
Protection - Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit
16/07/2019
Ways to implement the Farmers’ Right to Participate in Decision-
Making (Art. 9.2 (c) of the ITPGRFA)
16/07/2019
Recognizing Farmer’s Rights to freely save, use, exchange and sell
farm-saved seed/propagating material protected varieties in Plant
Variety Protection laws
16/07/2019
Associación de Organizaciones de los Cuchumatanes (ASOCUCH) Civil Society Organization
Acceso a semillas mediante una red de bancos comunitarios en la
Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Guatemala (Nivel Regional)
25/07/2019
Procesos de Información y Participación sobre la Implementación de
los Derechos de los Agricultores, en la Sierra de los Cuchumatanes,
Guatemala (Nivel Regional)
25/07/2019
Variedades adaptadas a nivel local en la Sierra de los Cuchumatanes,
Guatemala (Nivel Regional)
25/07/2019
Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance Civil Society Organization
Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation 31/07/2019
Bangladesh Contracting Party
Plant Variety Protection Act, 2019 17/07/2019
Benin Contracting Party
Il s’agit ici d’un ensemble de mesures portées par le projet Darwin 26/07/2019
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Bhutan Contracting Party
Community based On-farm Conservation and sustainable use of
PGRFA
17/07/2019
Bolivia (Plurinational State of ) Contracting Party
Derechos de las Naciones y Pueblos Indígena originario campesino 31/7/2019
Brazil Contracting Party
Implementation of the program Bioeconomy Brazil Sociobiodiversity 05/05/2020
The strategy to constructing the identity of custodian farmers as a way
to increasing food security
01/08/2019
Site recognition of traditional agricultural systems 01/08/2019
Canada Contracting Party
The Three Sisters Project 31/07/2019
Plant Breeders’ Rights Advisory Committee 31/07/2019
Potato Accelerated Release Program 31/07/2019
Western Wheat Breeding Core Support Agreement 31/07/2019
Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (CENESTA) Civil Society Organization
Increasing genetic diversity and realizing Farmers’ Rights through
Evolutionary Participatory Plant Breeding (EPPB)
26/07/2019
Centro Internazionale Crocevia Civil Society Organization
Implementation of Farmers’ Rights in the Italian legislation 24/07/2019
Central African Republic Contracting Party
Proposition, sur les pratiques optiques optimales/mesures
d'application de l’Article 9 du Traite international.
05/02/2019
CGIAR Centers International Organization
Applying an innovation-system approach in rice value-chain analysis
and development for competitive markets in Nigeria; Involving
farmers as partners in research and development projects; and
documenting efforts made by the Center - AfricaRice
23/07/2019
Community biodiversity registries and biocultural community
protocols: strengthening communities’ capacity to manage crop
genetic diversity in Benin. - Bioversity International
23/07/2019
Helping farmers access PGRFA from the multilateral system for
climate-change adaptation - Bioversity International
23/07/2019
Establishing and linking Community Seed Banks with the national
genebank for conservation and policy support - Bioversity
International.
23/07/2019
Official guidelines for the registration of farmers’ varieties in Nepal -
Bioversity International
23/07/2019
Apoyo a grupos de agricultores semilleristas en la producción de
semilla de papa nativa. Support to farmer seed-producer groups in
producing seed potatoes of native varieties - Bioversity International
23/07/2019
IT/GB-9/AHTEG-FR-3/20/Inf.3 4
CGIAR Centers International Organization
Rapid participatory characterization of cassava landrace
agrobiodiversity, nomenclature and traditions, uses, and conservation
status - Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT)
23/07/2019
Drought tolerant maize provides Extra 9 Months of Food for Farming
Families - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (
CIMMYT)
23/07/2019
International Maize Improvement Consortium – Asia (IMIC-Asia) -
Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
23/07/2019
Gender and lentil production in rural Ethiopia - Centre for
Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
23/07/2019
Mungbean for more productive crop rotations in Tajikistan - Centre
for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
23/07/2019
Germplasm collection in ‘gap areas’ of the West and Central African
region - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics (ICRISAT)
23/07/2019
Farmers Participatory Varietal Selection (FPVS) trials - International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
23/07/2019
Heirloom Rice Project - International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) 23/07/2019
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) 23/07/2019
Chile Contracting Party
Coordinación Público-Privada, a través de Comisión Nacional por
rubro o Mesa de Trabajo por rubro
31/07/2019
Iniciativa sobre los Sistemas Importantes del Patrimonio Agrícola
Mundial (SIPAM)
31/07/2019
Fondo concursable del Ministerio de Agricultura de Chile para apoyar
la innovación en el sector agrario, agroalimentario y forestal
31/07/2019
Programa Sello de Origen 31/07/2019
Comité Ouest-Africain des Semences Paysannes (COASP) Civil Society Organization
Identifier les lacunes dans le cadre juridique des semences concernant
la réalisation des droits des agriculteurs
26/07/2019
Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT) Zambia Civil Society Organization
Community seed multiplication of farmer varieties for distribution in
the community and for exchanges within the community, between
communities in different districts and between Zambia and
Zimbabwe. This includes supporting community seed banks including
establishing seed bank committees and training them in the principles
of seed handling and storage
31/07/2019
Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT) Zimbabwe Civil Society Organization
Policies and practices to facilitate the implementation of developed
Strategic Action Plans for Plant Genetic Resources conservation and
use for the improvement of food and nutrition security under changing
climatic conditions
19/07/2019
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Confédération Paysanne France Civil Society Organization
Plaidoyer pour l’inscription des droits des agriculteurs dans les lois
nationales
25/07/2019
Cuba Contracting Party
Reconocimiento a los agricultores a partir de la inscripción de
variedades tradicionales en el Registro Nacional de Variedades de
Cuba
30/07/2019
Development Fund Non-governmental
Organization
Promotion of Farmers[ Rights through awareness raising and capacity
building materials
30/07/2019
Community-based agrobiodiveristy systems for the realisation of
Farmers’ Rights
30/07/2019
Ecuador Contracting Party
Centros de Biconocimiento y Desarrollo Agrario – CBDA 08/07/2019
Declaración de patrimonio cultural de agrobiodiversidad al territorio
del cantón Cotacachi
08/07/2019
La chackra, una alternativa para el rescate, conservación y uso de la
agrobiodiversidad en los pueblos amazónicos
08/07/2019
Ley Orgánica de Agrobiodiversidad, Semillas y Fomento de la
Agricultura Sustentable
08/07/2019
Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers (ESAFF) Non-governmental
Organization
Improving small scale farmers’ especially women access to quality
seeds through using the community managed seed security model
23/07/2019
Federación de Cooperativas para el Desarrollo (FECODESIA) Civil Society Organization
Presentación de los derechos de los agricultores, ante representantes
de organizaciones, productores, y ciudadanos en general en Nicaragua
01/08/2019
France Contracting Party
Copyrights/droits d’auteur 31/07/2019
Plant Breeders’ rights (PBR) 31/07/2019
Geographical indication 31/07/2019
General regime on ABS 31/07/2019
Specialised regime on ABS – implementation of the ITPGRFA 31/07/2019
External funding – public and private sources 31/07/2019
Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) Public Research Organization
Ejere Farmer Crop Conservation Association (FCAS) and Community
Seed Bank
03/07/2019
Germany Contracting Party
Implementation of EU directives on conservation and amateur
varieties, and preservation mixtures
09/08/2019
IT/GB-9/AHTEG-FR-3/20/Inf.3 6
India Contracting Party
Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001 30/07/2019
Recognition and Rewards to farmers and farmer-breeder under the
PPV&FR Act, 2001
30/07/2019
Indonesia Contracting Party
Award for breeders farmers who contributes in conservation and
sustainable use of PGRFA
31/07/2019
Award for farmers who conserve genetic resources which is given at
National Congress of Genetic Resources
31/07/2019
Genetic Diversity Fair (G-Difa) 31/07/2019
Indonesian Breeding Awards 31/07/2019
1000 Seed Self-Reliant Village 31/07/2019
Farmers’ Field School on Food Sovereignty to Support Food Self-
Sufficiency and Seed Self-Reliance in Villages
31/07/2019
Launch of SPI20 Rice Varieties 31/07/2019
Genetic Resources Consortium 31/07/2019
Legal Protection for Various Types of Products with Geographical
Indication (GI) Characteristics in Indonesia
31/07/2019
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Cultivated and Wild Tropical
Fruit Diversity : Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods, Food Security
and Ecosystem Services
31/07/2019
Building Food Sovereignty Based on Local Community Food Sources 31/07/2019
Collection and Exchange of Local Seeds to Conserve Genetic
Resources and Local Seed Banks
31/07/2019
Collection of Genetic Resources through Student Community Service
Program
31/07/2019
Distribution of superior seeds of vegetable through community
service program
31/07/2019
Breeder Farmer Group 31/07/2019
Participatory Plant Breeding to Develop Improved Variety of Rice 31/07/2019
Releasing local variety of sugarpalm and early detection of its
maturity
31/07/2019
Rice Participatory Breeding in Central Java 31/07/2019
Training on Breeding of Bambara Groundnut and Loca Vegetables for
Plant Breeder
31/07/2019
Initiator for United Nation Declaration on The Rights of Peasant and
Other People Working in Rural Areas (UN-DROP)
31/07/2019
Training for Farmers on Utilization of Local Genetic Resources on the
Basis of Specific Agroecology
31/07/2019
Training and Capacity Building on Food Crops and Horticultural
Plants in Seed Industry for Breeders Collaborator and Members of
Indonesian Seed Association
31/07/2019
Training on Seed Purification Technique and Development of F1 Seed
for "Sumber Berkah" Farmers Group
31/07/2019
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Indonesia Contracting Party
Workshop of Genetic Resources Management 31/07/2019
International Seed Federation Non-governmental
Organization
AGUAPAN (Asociación de Guardianes de Papa Native del Centro de
Peru)
31/07/2019
Exceptions to IP rights (the private and non-commercial use exception
and the farm saved seed exception)
31/07/2019
Fair Planet 31/07/2019
Plant Breeders’ Rights legislation in the EU implementing the Treaty
and the UPOV 1991 Convention in a mutually supportive manner
31/07/2019
SEVIA 31/07/2019
Varieties for Diversity 31/07/2019
Italy and Rete Semi Rurali Contracting Party
Creation of a micro value-chain for a local variety of rye, the
"Iermana"
31/07/2019
Implementing the ITPGRFA in Italy - The National Programme
RGV/FAO
31/07/2019
Enhancement and protection of the products of local varieties of the
Genova’s mountain by a consortium of farmers called "Consorzio
della Quarantina"
31/07/2019
Innovative decentralised seed-systems for bread wheat evolutionary
populations
31/07/2019
Japan Contracting Party
Participation of Farmers in the Decision-Making Process 01/08/2019
The NARO Genebank Project, Japan 01/08/2019
Construction of a Database for Farmer’s Varieties/Landraces in Japan 01/08/2019
Jordan Contracting Party
Participatory approaches to research on PGRFA, including
characterization and evaluation, participatory plant breeding and
variety selection
24/07/2019
Making available wheat varieties and farmer’s learning via field
schools
24/07/2019
Karnataka State Farmers' Association (KRRS) Civil Society Organization
KRRS seed festival and seed banks 24/07/2019
Libya Contracting Party
Transfer and application of technology to farmers to conserve plant
genetic resources for food and agriculture (in arabic language)
25/07/2019
Local Initiative for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-
BIRD) Civil Society Organization
Community Biodiversity Register 31/07/2019
Community Seed Banks 31/07/2019
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Local Initiative for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-
BIRD) Civil Society Organization
Participatory Plant Breeding 31/07/2019
Landrace enhancement/Grassroots breeding 31/07/2019
Madagascar Contracting Party
Developing Community Biodiversity Registry and Biocultural
Community Protocols (BCP): Tools for Implementing Farmers'
Rights as set out in Article 9 of the ITPGRFA and strengthening
Community Capacity to Manage Crop Genetic Diversity
23/07/2019
Malawi Contracting Party
Farmer participation in decision making 01/08/2019
Strengthening Local Farmers Seed Systems through Community Seed
Banks in Malawi
01/08/2019
Participatory plant variety selection 01/08/2019
Mali (also submitted by SNP - IPC Secretariat) Contracting Party
Cadre « SNP Semences Normes et Paysans », un cadre multi-acteurs
de dialogue et de concertation entre le gouvernement, la société civile
agricole et la recherche pour la reconnaissance des systèmes
semenciers paysans
29/07/2019
Morocco Contracting Party
Cartographie de vulnérabilité des petits agriculteurs 31/07/2019
Développemnt de l'Agriculture solidaire 31/07/2019
Movimiento Agroecológico Latinoamericano (MAELA) Civil Society Organization
Actividades de MAELA para implementar los Derechos de los
Agriultores y limitaciones de los Acuerdos de Paz
25/07/2019
Netherlands Contracting Party
Support to the conservation of traditional plant varieties and crops 31/07/2019
Niger Contracting Party
Une loi semencière qui reconnaît l’importance des communautés
paysannes pour la gestion des semences, mais ne garantit pas les
droits des agriculteurs
31/07/2019
Norway Contracting Party
Global consultations on Farmers' Rights 21/06/2019
Annual support to the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) 21/06/2019
Farmers' Rights to Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture:
Implementation of the Plant Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol in
Bulgaria, RIGHTS
21/06/2019
Linking on farm management and ex situ conservation at Svalbard
Global Seed Vault
21/06/2019
The Plant Heritage Award 21/06/2019
Norwegian community seed bank 21/06/2019
Farmers' access to gene bank material 21/06/2019
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Norway Contracting Party
Participation in decision-making 21/06/2019
Revision of regulations on plant variety release and the marketing of
seed and seed potatoes
21/06/2019
Balancing PVP and Farmers' Rights 21/06/2019
Norwegian Seed Savers (KVANN) 21/06/2019
Organización Mapuche Consejo de Todas las Tierras Chile Civil Society Organization
Actividades de los Pueblos Mapuches en Chile y limitaciones de las
leyes
25/07/2019
Oxfam Novib Civil Society Organization
Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security (SD=HS) Program (1/2) –
Field Work
31/07/2019
Submission - Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security (SD=HS)
Program (2/2) – Policy Work
31/07/2019
Papua New Guinea Contracting Party
Farmer Participatory Approach in increasing genetic diversity in
farmers field with exotic Taro Plant Genetic Resources (PGR)
29/08/2019
Pagkakaisa para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo at Kaunlarang
Pangkanayunan (Unity Toward Effective Agrarian Reform and Rural
Development) PARAGOS – Philippines
Civil Society Organization
Implementation of Farmers’ Rights at national level in Philippinesby
Government and farmers
25/07/2019
Peru Contracting Party
Intercambio de experencias dentro y entre comunidades sobre usos de
los cultivos nativos
31/07/2019
Ferias de la Agrobiodiversidad 31/07/2019
Intercambio tradicional de semillas 31/07/2019
Conocimientos tradicionales sobre la cosmovisión andina 31/07/2019
Caracterización morfológica con descriptores campesinos 31/07/2019
Philippines Contracting Party
Capacity Building and Promotion of Dynamic Conservation and
Sustainable Use of Agro-biodiversity in traditional ecosystems of the
Philippines/In situ conservation of traditional varieties
27/07/2019
East-West Seed’s Best Practices on the Implementation of Article 9
(Farmers Rights) of the ITPGRFA
27/07/2019
Protocol on In-Situ On Farm Conservation of Traditional Varieties of
Crops
27/07/2019
IPOPhl-NCIP Joint Administrative Order No. 01-2016 (Rules and
Regulations on Intellectual Property Rights Application and
Registration Protecting the Indigenous Knowledge Systems and
Practices of Indigenous Peoples
27/07/2019
Provision for Small Farmers‟ Rights under Republic Act No. 9168 of
2002, “ An Act to provide Protection to New Plant Varieties, 27/07/2019
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Philippines Contracting Party
Establishing a National Plant Variety Protection Board and For Other
Purposes”
ProSpecieRara Civil Society Organization
Safeguarding Farmers Rights in Swiss IP law 08/07/2019
Southeast Asia Regional Initiative for Community Empowerment
(SEARICE) Civil Society Organization
Building on Community Traditional Knowledge and Practices for
Food Security
01/08/2019
Farmer-codeveloped ordinance on Agriculture (Sustainable
Agriculture Code of the Municipality of Arakan, North Cotabato,
Philippines)
01/08/2019
Establishing Resilient Community-managed Seed Systems 01/08/2019
Community Seed Registry 01/08/2019
Participatory Plant Breeding in Lao PDR 01/08/2019
Securing Local Seed System Through Farmers’ Seed Clubs 01/08/2019
Community Seed Banks: Enhancing Local Seed Conservation 01/08/2019
South Africa Non-Contracting Party
Farmers seed systems and the conservation of agrobiodiversity in
South Africa: the establishment and support of community seed banks
26/07/2019
Spain Contracting Party
Elaboración, tramitación y aprobación del Real Decreto 429/2020, de
3 de marzo, por el que se aprueba el Reglamento sobre acceso a los
recursos fitogenéticos para la agricultura y la alimentación y a los
cultivados para utilización con otros fines, así como de desarrollo de
los derechos de los agricultores (en España)
14/05/2020
Acciones de capacitación y sensibilización dirigidas a agricultores y
sus asociaciones llevadas a cabo por el Centro de Recursos
Fitogenéticos del Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología
Agraria y Alimentaria (CRF-INIA)
19/07/2019
Distribución a agricultores para uso directo de accesiones de recursos
fitogenéticos conservados en el Centro Nacional de Recursos
Fitogenéticos del Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología
Agraria y Alimentaria (CRF-INIA) a agricultores
19/07/2019
Elaboración y publicación del Inventario Español de los
Conocimientos Tradicionales relativos a la Biodiversidad Agrícola
19/07/2019
Participación de las asociaciones de agricultores en la toma de
decisiones relacionadas con los recursos fitogenéticos para la
alimentación y la agricultura en España
19/07/2019
Sudan Contracting Party
Draft national legislation on plant genetic resources in Sudan (2016) 11/07/2019
Participatory plant breeders for Release of Millet Varieties (farmer
developed varieties)
11/07/2019
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Sudan Contracting Party
Community-based Seed Growers Groups (SGGs) to produce certified
seeds of improved and traditional varieties
11/07/2019
Established of Seed community banks in five villages and set up of
and trained of five Village Agricultural Committees to manage the
facilities
11/07/2019
Sweden Contracting Party
‘The Golden Pea award’ 09/07/2019
Naptek - National programme on local and traditional knowledge
concerning the conservation and sustainable use of biological
diversity, and Pom - Programme for diversity of cultivated plants
09/07/2019
Kålrotsakademien (The Swede Academy) 09/07/2019
Advisory bodies to the national PGR programme 09/07/2019
Networking for growing crop diversity 09/07/2019
Switzerland Contracting Party
Swiss regulation on “Niche Varieties” 31/07/2019
Rolling the National Plan of Action for the Conservation and
Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
(NAP-PGRFA) together with Farmers’ Organizations
31/07/2019
National IPR tools and measures supporting Article 9 of the
ITPGRFA : the farmers’ privilege
31/07/2019
National IPR tools and measures supporting Article 9 of the
ITPGRFA : geographical indications, trademarks and the new
“swissness” regulation
31/07/2019
Promotion of Article 9 implementation through International
Cooperation and Official Development Assistance (ODA) (I)
31/07/2019
Promotion of Article 9 implementation through International
Cooperation and Official Development Assistance (ODA) (II)
31/07/2019
Third World Network Civil Society Organization
Require applicant for plant variety protection to disclose the source of
genetic material used in development of plant variety for which
protection is sough, whether it is legally acquired and evidence of
benefit sharing to prevent misappropriation and promote fair and
equitable benefit sharing and protect traditional knowledge
30/07/2019
Implementing Sui Generis Plant Variety Protection System that
Recognizes Farmers’ Seed Systems, Farmers’ Varieties and Advances
Farmers’ Rights
30/07/2019
Uganda Contracting Party
Strengthening Seed Delivery System for Dryland Cereals and
Legumes in Drought-prone Areas of Uganda
31/08/2019
United States of America Contracting Party
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) 30/07/2019
Crop Insurance 30/07/2019
Federal Advisory Committee – Plant Variety Protection Board 30/07/2019
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United States of America Contracting Party
Federal Advisory Committee – National Agricultural Research,
Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board
30/07/2019
Federal Seed Act 30/07/2019
Germplasm Resources Information Network 30/07/2019
National Plant Germplasm System 30/07/2019
Office of Technology Transfer 30/07/2019
Public Access to Expired PVP Seeds 30/07/2019
Right to Save Seed under PVPA 30/07/2019
USDA Crop Germplasm Committees 30/07/2019
World Agricultural Heritage Foundation (WAHF) Civil Society Organization
Capacity building of small-scale farming/indigenous communities to
manage and conserve Agricultural Heritage Systems
26/06/2019
Recognition of farming communities through Globally Important
Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
26/06/2019