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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 has been developed as a
tool for decision makers, practitioners, and others involved in the realization
of Farmers' Rights. It is also intended as an information source for
researchers and other interested individuals.
Here you will find
information 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, a
calendar of coming events, and answers to
'frequently asked questions' (FAQ).
The
website was originally created in 2008 as part of the
Farmers' Rights Project of the
Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), with financial
support of the sectorial GTZ project People, Food and Biodversity which is
implemented on behalf of the German BMZ. Since the beginning of 2015,
responsibility for maintaining and updating the website has been taken over by
Oikos - Organic Norway.
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The Farmers' Rights website depends on input from
you. Please help us keep the site updated by letting us know about new
developments related to Farmers' Rights. Contact details >
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Latest website additions and
news:
(30.09.2016) The Future of Food: Seeds of
Resilience, A Compendium of Perspectives on Agricultural Biodiversity from
Around the World
Compendium, Global Alliance for the future of Food,
2016
(30.09.2016) Symposium on
Possible Interrelations between the International Treaty on Plant Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and the International Convention
for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention)
Geneva, October26,
2016
(28.09.2016) Supporting community seedbanks to
realize farmers’ rights
Policy Paper, Bioversity
International, 2016
(28.09.2016)
Realizing farmers’ rights
through community-based agricultural biodiversity management.
Policy Paper,
Bioversity International, 2016
(27.09.2016)
Farmers' Rights to Participate in
Decision-making - Implementing Article 9.2(c) of the International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Working paper, APBREBES,
2016
(23.08.2016) Venezuela: 2015
seed law considers seeds as public interest commons
(23.08.2016)
Guatemala: Nagoya protocol on ABS declared
inconstitutional by Supreme Court
(22.08.2016)
France: new legislation on biodiversity, access
to genetic resources, traditional knowledge and farmers'
rights
(17.08.2016) ACB
Field Work Report: Farmer Managed Seed Systems in Morogoro and Mvomero,
Tanzania: The disregarded wealth of smallholder farmers
(29.06.2016)
Article: Seed Wars
and Farmers' Rights: comparative
perspectives from Brazil and India
(01.06.2016)
Electronic
Consultation on Farmers' Rights
(20.05.2016)
Trondheim Conference on
Biodiversity - Food Systems for a Sustainable Future
(17.05.2016)
Announcement
of the Global Consultation on Farmers' Rights
(17.05.2016)
Third
meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Committee on Sustainable Use of PGRFA
(ACSU-3)
(09.05.2016)
Information on
IT/OWG-EFMLS-5/16
(08.12.2015)
Expert talk
"Seed and Sustainable Agriculture", GIZ
(14.10.2015)
Information on GB6 in Rome
(2.3.2015)
Input
paper for the Second Meeting Ad Hoc Technical Committee
(7.1.2014)
Note on the progress on Farmers' Rights at
GB5
(20.6.2013)
New book on Farmers'
Rights!
(19.6.2013) Information on GB5
in Oman
(18.6.2013) Information on
APBREBES
(13.3.2013) Book on Community Biodiversity
Management
(7.1.2013)
Stakeholders’
Consultation on Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture
(21.11.2012)
Book on crop genetic resources as
a global commons
(5.11.2012)
Report on EU seed legislation in
the context of agricultural biodiversity
(5.10.2012)
English version of report on FR in
Norway
(20.09.2012) Information about the re-invitation to
submit views, experiences, etc. on FR
(20.09.2012)
Article in New Routes on the FR
project
(24.08.2012) Presentations
from a meeting on PPB and CGIAR
(09.05.2012)
Technical manual on plant breeding
with farmers
(07.12.2011)
Book on agrobiodiversity and law
(23.11.2011) Dossier on
seeds and FR
(18.11.2011) Report in Norwegian on FR in Norway
(08.08.2011) Article in Norwegian
(08.06.2011) Biodiversity in Food
Awards now open
(07.06.2011)
Article on Indian patent regime and
TRIPS
(07.06.2011) Video on PPB in
Uganda
(31.05.2011) Official
version of GB4 resolution on FR
(23.05.2011)
FAO educational module on the Plant
Treaty
(13.05.2011) Scandinavian
meeting on old crop varieties
(14.04.2011)
Report from the 2010 Global
Consultations survey
(05.04.2011)
Farmers' Rights at
GB4
(04.04.2011) Side event
about the Global Consultations at GB4
(25.03.2011)
Report on community seed
banks
(08.03.2011) Report
from the Global Consultations on FR in 2010
(19.01.2011)
Input Paper from the Global
Consultations
(01.12.2010) Second Report on State of the World's
PGRFA
(30.11.2010) Consultation
Conference on Farmers' Rights
(30.06.2010)
Call for proposals 2010 for
Benefit-Sharing Fund of the Treaty
(07.06.2010)
Report from workshop on non-monetary
benefit sharing
(29.04.2010)
Phd thesis by Julia Rojahn
(26.03.2010) Essay by
Regine Andersen
(23.03.2010)
Phd thesis on the ITPGRFA by Thi Thuy
Van Dinh
(01.02.2010) Book on agrobiodiversity zones and
registration of native crops in Peru
(29.10.2009)
Book chapter from Brewster Kneen's
'The Tyranny of Rights'
(27.10.2009)
UN report about the right to food
and seed policies
(01.09.2009) French
and Spanish versions of the FR
website
(24.07.2009) Discussion paper on ITPGRFA and
FR
(02.07.2009) Information about sustainable
use at GB3
(02.07.2009) Information about a new resolution on
Farmers' Rights
(02.07.2009)
Phd thesis by Juliana Santilli:
Agrobiodiversity and Law
(24.06.2009)
List of descriptors for farmer's
knowledge of plants
(12.06.2009)
Article by José
Esquinas-Alcázar: Protecting crop genetic diversity for food security:
political, ethical and technical challenges
(12.06.2009)
IAO Report on Sustainable Use of
Agrobiodiversity in Italy
(20.05.2009)
Information Paper on Farmers'
Rights
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