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View article: Genetic databases in the era of ‘DSI’ benefit-sharing
Genetic databases in the era of ‘DSI’ benefit-sharing Open
Genetic databases drive research by enabling open access. Recently, parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed on new rules for sharing benefits from the use of digital sequence information (DSI) which upholds open access, an…
View article: Opportunities for strategic decision making in managing <i>ex situ</i> germplasm collections
Opportunities for strategic decision making in managing <i>ex situ</i> germplasm collections Open
Efficient conservation and sustainable use of crop diversity is critical to support global food and nutritional security with ex situ collections stored in over 800 genebanks in 115 countries. The challenge is to manage those collections f…
View article: New rules for sharing benefits from the use of digital sequence information
New rules for sharing benefits from the use of digital sequence information Open
It is important for scientists engaged in genome editing to appreciate that the international community is currently engaged in highly dynamic negotiations to develop new rules for sharing benefits derived from the use of digital sequence …
View article: What Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Are Available under the Plant Treaty and Where Is This Information?
What Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Are Available under the Plant Treaty and Where Is This Information? Open
Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) are the building blocks upon which global food and nutrition security depend and are key to plant breeding for more resistant crops, but how available are they? To understand what PG…
View article: New benefit-sharing principles for digital sequence information
New benefit-sharing principles for digital sequence information Open
Benefit sharing should be decoupled from access
View article: International agreements and the plant genetics research community: A guide to practice
International agreements and the plant genetics research community: A guide to practice Open
Plant genetic resources (PGR), including collections held in national and international gene banks, provide access to a wide array of genetic diversity and are critical to genomics research, conservation efforts, and applied breeding. Yet,…
View article: The Role of Gender and Institutional Dynamics in Adapting Seed Systems to Climate Change: Case Studies from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
The Role of Gender and Institutional Dynamics in Adapting Seed Systems to Climate Change: Case Studies from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda Open
We explore how seed systems enhance access to seeds, and information for climate-change adaptation in farming communities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, as well as how gender-driven roles and institutional dynamics influence the process. M…
View article: South and Southeast Asia Workshop for Nagoya Protocol and Plant Treaty National Focal Points, 27-30 March 2017, International Rice Research Institute Los Baños, the Philippines
South and Southeast Asia Workshop for Nagoya Protocol and Plant Treaty National Focal Points, 27-30 March 2017, International Rice Research Institute Los Baños, the Philippines Open
This report documents the South and Southeast Asia Workshop for Nagoya Protocol and Plant Treaty National Focal Points, which took place from 27-30 March 2017 at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, the Philippines.
View article: Enhancing farmers’ agency in the global crop commons through use of biocultural community protocols
Enhancing farmers’ agency in the global crop commons through use of biocultural community protocols Open
Crop genetic resources constitute a ‘new’ global commons, characterized by multiple layers of activities of farmers, genebanks, public and private research and development organizations, and regulatory agencies operating from local to glob…
View article: Germplasm Acquisition and Distribution by CGIAR Genebanks
Germplasm Acquisition and Distribution by CGIAR Genebanks Open
The international collections of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) hosted by 11 CGIAR Centers are important components of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s global system of conservation and use o…
View article: The Role of Genetic Resources in Breeding for Climate Change: The Case of Public Breeding Programmes in Eighteen Developing Countries
The Role of Genetic Resources in Breeding for Climate Change: The Case of Public Breeding Programmes in Eighteen Developing Countries Open
The role of plant breeding in adapting crops to climate changes that affect food production in developing countries is recognized as extremely important and urgent, alongside other agronomic, socio-economic and policy adaptation pathways. …
View article: Report of a policy dialogue workshop on open source seed systems for climate change adaptation in East Africa
Report of a policy dialogue workshop on open source seed systems for climate change adaptation in East Africa Open
The report gives a summary of a policy workshop that was held in December 2019 to discuss the complex issues related to access to and use of genetic resources for climate change adaptation. In particular, the workshop focussed on policies …
View article: Enhancing access to genetic resources for climate change adaptation in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania: Seed catalogues of best perfoming varieties of sorghum in Dodoma and Singida Tanzania
Enhancing access to genetic resources for climate change adaptation in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania: Seed catalogues of best perfoming varieties of sorghum in Dodoma and Singida Tanzania Open
Climate change poses an increasing threat to food and nutrition security of resource-poor farmers globally. In Tanzania, homogenization of agriculture to single crops or varieties coupled with the associated loss of biodiversity has furthe…
View article: CGIAR Operations under the Plant Treaty Framework
CGIAR Operations under the Plant Treaty Framework Open
The history of CGIAR and the development and implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (“Plant Treaty”) are closely intertwined. In accordance with the agreements that 11 CGIAR centers s…
View article: Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa subregion. Report of the consultative workshop, 5-8 March 2019, Entebbe, Uganda
Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa subregion. Report of the consultative workshop, 5-8 March 2019, Entebbe, Uganda Open
This report presents the main results of the consultative start-up workshop for the ‘Resilient seed systems in East Africa’ initiative which aims to combine and scale from the local to the global level, successful strategies, methods and t…
View article: Are the old International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) base collections available through the Plant Treaty’s multilateral system of access and benefit sharing? A review
Are the old International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) base collections available through the Plant Treaty’s multilateral system of access and benefit sharing? A review Open
In 1975, the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources created the first internationally linked system of genebanks, known as the Registry of Base Collections (RBC), to conserve plant germplasm and make it available globally for agri…
View article: Using Genomic Sequence Information to Increase Conservation and Sustainable Use of Crop Diversity and Benefit-Sharing
Using Genomic Sequence Information to Increase Conservation and Sustainable Use of Crop Diversity and Benefit-Sharing Open
This article describes how CGIAR centers and partners are using genomic sequence information to promote the conservation and sustainable use of crop genetic diversity, and to generate and share benefits derived from those uses. The article…
View article: Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: opportunities and challenges emerging from the science and information technology revolution
Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: opportunities and challenges emerging from the science and information technology revolution Open
Contents Summary 1407 I. Introduction 1408 II. Technological advances and their utility for gene banks and breeding, and longer‐term contributions to SDGs 1408 III. The challenges that must be overcome to realise emerging R&D opportunities…
View article: Mutually supportive implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: A workshop for selected countries under the UNDP coordinated project “Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks, and institutionalcapacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol”
Mutually supportive implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: A workshop for selected countries under the UNDP coordinated project “Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks, and institutionalcapacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol” Open
Bioversity International, the UNDP-GEF Project “Strengthening human resources, legal frameworks, and institutional capacities to implement the Nagoya Protocol” and the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for …
View article: Enhancing the capacity of local communities to access crop genetic diversity for climate change adaptation
Enhancing the capacity of local communities to access crop genetic diversity for climate change adaptation Open
Benin is located on the Guinean coast of West Africa and has a mixed tropical and sub-equatorial climate with two rainy seasons. Beninoise farmers practice mixed rain-fed crop and livestock farming. Climate change puts the country at risk …
View article: AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY IN CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANNING
AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY IN CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANNING Open
Climate change is one of the biggest threats to food production worldwide. Recently, an increasing number of initiatives have embraced the concept of climate smart agriculture to respond to climate change adaptation and mitigation challeng…
View article: The support for farmer-led seed systems in African seed laws
The support for farmer-led seed systems in African seed laws Open
The synthesis report is part of a series of papers on Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) in Africa’s thematic working group on Matching national realities with global commitments. The thematic working group addressed the main questi…
View article: Access and benefit-sharing policies for climate-resilient seed systems
Access and benefit-sharing policies for climate-resilient seed systems Open
The synthesis report is part of a series of papers on Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) in Africa’s thematic working group on Matching national realities with global commitments. The thematic working group addressed the main questi…
View article: Potential implications of the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources for the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. A submission from CGIAR to the Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Potential implications of the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources for the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. A submission from CGIAR to the Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Open
This report has been submitted by CGIAR in response to an invitation issued by the Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) calling on “relevant organizations and stakeholders to submit views and relevant information on an…
View article: Mainstreaming agricultural biological diversity across sectors through NBSAPs: Missing Links to Climate Change Adaptation, Dietary Diversity and the PlantTreaty
Mainstreaming agricultural biological diversity across sectors through NBSAPs: Missing Links to Climate Change Adaptation, Dietary Diversity and the PlantTreaty Open
This Information Note presents a summary of an analysis of the revised NBSAPs that were submitted by 119 countries to the CBD Secretariat prior to 20 November 2016. The study focused on how agrobiodiversity has been mainstreamed across sec…
View article: How are the meso-level expert organizations connected to farmers and among themselves? Comparing Rakai (Uganda) and Lushoto (Tanzania)
How are the meso-level expert organizations connected to farmers and among themselves? Comparing Rakai (Uganda) and Lushoto (Tanzania) Open
Key messages: Network analysis provides a mechanism to both understand how information and communication structures vary across sites, and to identify opportunities for intervening in ways that may improve communication flows. Farmer-exper…
View article: Twenty-five years of international exchanges of plant genetic resources facilitated by the CGIAR genebanks: a case study on global interdependence
Twenty-five years of international exchanges of plant genetic resources facilitated by the CGIAR genebanks: a case study on global interdependence Open
This article analyses 25 years of data about international movements of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA), facilitated by the gene banks hosted by seven centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural…