«However, to obtain material from the International Rice Genebank they must accept the terms and conditions set out for such sharing under the International Treaty
on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture,» he added.
Under the International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a system has been established and agreed upon by most countries of the world that facilitates access to genetic diversity while ensuring appropriate sharing of the benefits that arise from its use.
Geoffrey Hawtin, director — general of the International Board for
Plant Genetic Resources in Rome, says farmers in parts of Somalia are without seeds for the coming growing season.
This is a comprehensive five - year program for the management, as well as the secure and sustainable funding, of the collections of
plant genetic resources held by 11 members of the CGIAR Consortium.
Following extensive negotiation among all the contributing countries, IRRI now manages the collection under theInternational Treaty
on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Russia's renamed N. I. Vavilov Institute
of Plant Genetic Resources may play a role in helping develop new strains of more heat - and drought - resistant crops.
Britain, she says, supports work on the collection of genetic resources at the International
Plant Genetic Resource Institute and is contributing # 600 000 this year to its activities, including work on crops such as cassava, coconuts and bananas for which seed banks are not useful.
In Nairobi last week, Serageldin stated that «a system - wide effort will lead to a more comprehensive approach» to ensure
that plant genetic resources are conserved and used.
In May, the IARCs signed an agreement with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to give control to the Intergovernmental Commission on
Plant Genetic Resources, a body sponsored by the FAO and in which every member country has a vote.
Under the deal the IARCs signed with the FAO, the Intergovernmental Commission on
Plant Genetic Resources, on which developing countries are in the majority, would decide how the IARCs and gene donors would be compensated when companies use genes held at the centres.
It focuses on securing the wild relatives of 29 of 64 crops that are listed in an annex to the International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
I hope that the appeal by the authors for much more concerted action to preserve
the plant genetic resources of tropical forests is heeded.
The mission of NSSL is to preserve the base collection of the National Plant Germplasm System and to conduct research to develop new technologies for preservation of seed and other propagules of
plant genetic resources.
To rectify inequities such as these, multiple international agreements were negotiated to govern access to, and commercialization of,
plant genetic resources.
The Global Crop Diversity Trust's endowment is a fundamental step towards realizing a robust global seed conservation and exchange system envisioned by the International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty).
This activity report provides an overview of the characteristics and main activities of the projects that are being implemented as part of the second project portfolio of the Benefit - sharing Fund (BSF) of the International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.