What are Farmers' Rights
(FR)?
This website is about Farmers' Rights (FR) as
they are addressed in the International
Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Farmers' Rights
are basically about enabling farmers to continue their work as stewards and
innovators of agricultural biodiversity, and about recognizing and rewarding
them for their contribution to the global pool of genetic resources.
Thus, Farmers' Rights are critical to ensuring the conservation and
sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture and consequently
for food security today and in the future. Farmers' Rights are also a
central means in the fight against rural poverty in developing countries.
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About
this website
This website was developed in the
period 2008-2012 as a tool for decision makers, practitioners, and others
involved in the realization of Farmers' Rights. It was also an information
source for researchers and other interested individuals. The website has
remained available after 2012 as a source of information from this period but
has not been systematically updated after that. A few updates have been made in
the 'Latest website additions and news', though. Efforts are currently underway
to seek new funding to upgrade, update and relaunch
farmersrights.org.
At this website you will find information
systematically compiled from 2005 until 2012 on the
history, legal status and
contents of Farmers' Rights, on the
state of implementation of these rights, and a
comprehensive database on legislation and
policies. You will find concrete recommendations on how to go about implementing Farmers' Rights in your own
country, with examples of success
stories from all over the world. Furthermore, the website contains
overviews of literature and
organizations related to Farmers' Rights, and
answers to 'frequently asked questions' (FAQ).
The website was originally created and
maintained as part of the Farmers' Rights
Project of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute
(FNI), with financial support of the sectorial GTZ (now GIZ) project People,
Food and Biodversity which was implemented on behalf of the German BMZ.
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