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How to
realize Farmers' Rights at the national level
How can you proceed to realize Farmers' Rights in your
country, according to the provisions in the International Treaty on Plant
Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture? What are the steps required? Taking
the Treaty as point of departure, and based on the research carried out in the
Farmers' Rights Project, we here offer a
framework for implementation of Farmers' Rights at the national level with
seven steps. Within this framework different avenues are possible, dependent on
the needs and priorities in your country.
The first four steps are
about how to design a constructive and fruitful implementation process.
Particularly with Farmers' Rights, which involve and affect so many
stakeholders, the process is crucial to ensuring good and lasting results. The
last four steps are about the contents of Farmers' Rights, as derived from the
International Treaty, and how they can be realized in practice. They start out
with options on how to assess and improve the legislation and regulations in
the country with regard to the legal space for farmers to conserve and
sustainably use crop genetic diversity (Art. 9.1, 9.3 and Preamble). The next
steps are about ensuring the protection of traditional knowledge, the
participation in equitable benefit sharing and farmers' participation in
decision making with regard to genetic resources (Article 9.2). A workshop
module comprising these elements is offered for free use. It is aimed at
bringing stakeholders together, broadening their understanding of the topic,
framing a fruitful dialogue, identifying required measures, and providing
inspiration for joint action.
Read more about:
Step 1: Creating awareness on the importance of Farmers'
Rights
Step 2: Ensuring
farmers' participation in the implementation process
Step 3: Developing a national
consultative process, joining forces, pooling resources
Step 4: Establishing an institutional
framework for implementation
Step
5: Protecting and enhancing legal space for farmers' customary
practices
Step 6: Protecting
traditional knowledge relevant to crop genetic resources
Step 7: Promoting the right to
equitably participate in benefit sharing
Step 8: Enabling participation in
decision making on genetic resources
Feedback is
welcome We invite our users to comment on this framework for
implementation of Farmers' Rights, as well as inform us about experiences with
its use. Also feedback on other exeperiences with implementation of Farmers'
Rights are welcome. Contact
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