The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) is the first legally binding international agreement that explicitly recognizes farmers' rights. The normative content of the Treaty's Article 9 on farmers' rights is relatively open-ended. It sets the scene...
Halewood, Michael
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Deupmann, P.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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Ceccarelli, S.
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[Participatory plant breeding to promote Farmers' Rights: October 2007]
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Participatory plant breeding to promote Farmers' Rights: October 2007
If properly managed, socio-ecological production landscapes and the ecosystem services they provide can contribute to
the well-being of local communities, as well as to the achievement of the global conservation agenda and of other relevant
development policies at the national level. However, man...
Bedmar Villanueva, A.
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Morimoto, Y.
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Maundu, P.
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Jha, Y.
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Otieno, G.
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Nankya, R.
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Ogwal, R.
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Leles, B.
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Halewood, Michael
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[Perceptions of resilience, collective action and natural resources management in socio-ecological production landscapes in East Africa]
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Perceptions of resilience, collective action and natural resources management in socio-ecological production landscapes in East Africa
The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT is implementing a Dutch-supported project entitled: Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region. This work aims to boost timely and affordable access to good-quality seed for a portfolio of crop...
Recha, Tobias
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Halewood, Michael
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Fadda, Carlo
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Mushita, Andrew
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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Kidane, Yosef
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[Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019]
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Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region: Report of training workshop, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 17-21 September 2019
Teams in eight countries (Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda, and Uganda) supported by a grant from the Netherlands to Bioversity International have developed common terms of reference for research and capacity building to support national implementation of ...
Halewood, Michael
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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[Strengthening capacities to implement the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing:efforts under way and challenges encountered in Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Cote d''Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda]
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Strengthening capacities to implement the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing:efforts under way and challenges encountered in Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Cote d''Ivoire, Guatemala, Nepal, Rwanda and Uganda
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 question on how African governments implement their global commi...
Herpers, S.
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Vodouhe, R.S.
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Halewood, Michael
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Jonge, B. de
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[The support for farmer-led seed systems in African seed laws.]
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The support for farmer-led seed systems in African seed laws.
Halewood, Michael
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Lapena, I.
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[Farmers' varieties and farmers' rights: challenges at the crossroads of agriculture, taxonomy and law]
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Farmers' varieties and farmers' rights: challenges at the crossroads of agriculture, taxonomy and law
Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hue
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Jarvis, D.
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Halewood, Michael
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[Promoting policy support for the enhancement and marketing of farmers' varieties in Vietnam]
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Promoting policy support for the enhancement and marketing of farmers' varieties in Vietnam
Over the last 50 years there has been a growing appreciation of the important role that farmers play in the development and conservation of crop genetic diversity, and the contribution of that diversity to agro-ecosystem resilience and food security. This book examines policies that aim to increa...
Halewood, Michael
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[Farmers' crop varieties and farmers' rights: challenges in taxonomy and law]
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Farmers' crop varieties and farmers' rights: challenges in taxonomy and law
This report summarizes the first steps of a project to analyze the role of networks in the diffusion and uptake of climate-smart technologies in Rakai, Uganda. The activity is part of the Policy Action for Climate Change Adaptation (PACCA) project funded by Climate Change for Agriculture and Food...
Ogwal-Omara, R.
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Halewood, Michael
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Otieno, G.
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Bioversity International
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[The role of networks in diffusion and uptake of climate-smart technologies in Rakai, Uganda: Report of project initiation workshops, 5-9 May 2014]
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The role of networks in diffusion and uptake of climate-smart technologies in Rakai, Uganda: Report of project initiation workshops, 5-9 May 2014
Since 2012, national teams in eight countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have been identifying options for policy, legal and administrative mechanisms for the implementation of the multilateral system of access and benefit sharing (MLS) for plant genetic resources. This article summarises ...
Vernooy, Ronnie
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Halewood, Michael
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López Noriega, Isabel
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Otieno, G.
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Lapena, I.
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Vodohue, R.
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Bessette, G.
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[Implementing access and benefit sharing in eight countries]
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Implementing access and benefit sharing in eight countries