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Symposium on food security and biodiversity: Benefit sharing
| The symposium examines practical approaches in interpreting the International Treaty's benefit sharing provision. Additionally the new Global Crop Diversity Trust with a purpose of protecting international seed banks in perpetuity is introduced.
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On 16 October each year the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates
World Food Day to commemorate its founding in 1945. This year the WFD theme, “Biodiversity
for Food Security”, recognises the role of biodiversity in ensuring that people have sustainable access
to enough high quality food to lead active and healthy lives.
With the International Treaty on
Plant Genetic Resources having come into force in June 2004, this is a particularly topical theme
as the treaty lays the framework guiding national and international action for conservation of
plant biodiversity.
It was also the theme of a symposium sponsored in 2003 by the Swiss Agency for Development
and Cooperation (SDC) and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture in Basel,
Switzerland. Titled “Food Security and Biodiversity: Sharing the Benefit of Plant Genetic Resources”
the symposium invited differing perspectives on protecting, sharing and using the
world’s plant genetic resources.
We are pleased to mark the occasion of World Food Day this year with this collection of presentations
from our symposium.
Contributions
- Opening
remarks
By: Walter Fust: Director General, Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation
- Opening
remarks
By Heinz Imhof: Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Syngenta;
President Syngenta
Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
- Saving
Genes Through Improved Access and Benefit Sharing
By Andrew
Bennett: Former Executive director of the Syngenta
Foundation for
Sustainable Agriculture.
- Diversity
and Protectionism Use of Genebanks: Trends and Interpretations
By Cary Fowler: Agricultural University of Norway,
Senior Advisor to IPGRI
- International
Treaty and its Benefit Sharing Provision
By Alwin Kopše: Swiss
Federal Office for Agriculture
- Sharing
under The Convention on Biological Diversity
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210KB]
By François Pythoud: Swiss
Agency for the Environment,
Forests
and Landscape
- Balancing
Interests
By Geoff Tansey: Consultant, Quaker
United Nations Office,
Switzerland
- Fair and equitable benefit-sharing within the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (The View of the Berne Declaration)
By Bernhard Herold: Declaration
of Bern, Switzerland
- The Global Crop Diversity Trust: Purposes, Priorities and Governance
By Geoffrey Hawtin: Executive
Director,
Global Crop Diversity Trust, Italy
- Case Study: San/CSIR Hoodia Benefit Sharing Model
Petro Terblanche Executive Director Bio/Chemtek, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa.
- Case Study: Genetic Resource Conservation and Benefit Sharing at the International Potato Center
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