Plant genetic resources and food security : stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture / edited by Christine Frison, Francisco López and José T. Esquinas-Alcazar.
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| Other title: | Stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. |
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York, NY :
Earthscan,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Shakeel Bhatti and Olivier De Schutter
- Introduction : A treaty to fight hunger : past negotiations, present situation and future challenges / José T. Esquinas-Alcázar, Christine Frison and Francisco López
- Overview of regional approaches : the negotiating process of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Appendix: Chairman's elements) / Fernando Gerbasi
- The African regional group : creating fair play between North and South / Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Elizabeth Matos and Godfrey Mwila
- The Asian regional group / Eng Siang Lim
- The European regional group : Europe's role and positions during the negotiations and early implementation of the international treaty / Bert Visser and Jan Borring
- The Latin American and Caribbean regional group : a long and successful process for the protection, conservation and enhancing of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture / Modesto Fernández Díaz-Silveira
- The Near East regional group : centring the diversity for unlocking the genetic potential / Javad Mozafari Hashjin
- The North American group : globalization that works / Brad Fraleigh and Bryan L. Harvey
- The South West Pacific regional group : a view from the Pacific Island countries and territories / Mary Taylor
- International non-governmental organizations : the hundred year (or so) seed war
- seeds, sovereignty and civil society
- a historical perspective on the evolution of 'the law of the seed' / Patrick Mooney
- International research centres : the consultative group on international agricultural research and the international treaty / Gerald Moore and Emile Frison
- The seed industry : plant breeding and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture / Anke van den Hurk
- Farmers' communities : a reflection on the treaty from small farmers' perspectives / Wilhelmina R. Pelegrina and Renato Salazar
- Gene bank curators : towards implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture by the Indian National Gene Bank / Shyam Kumar Sharma and Pratibha Brahmi
- Plant breeders : the point of view of a plant breeder on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture / José I. Cubero
- The Global Crop Diversity Trust : an essential element of the treaty's funding strategy / Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler
- Consumers : biodiversity is a common good / Cinzia Scaffidi
- Our heritage is our future : humankind's responsibility for food security / Cosima Hufler and Renè Lefeber
- An innovative and transparent option for royalty payment under the treaty : implementing Article 6.1 Crop-related modality of the standard material transfer agreement / Carlos M. Correa
- General conclusions : summary of stakeholders' views and suggestions to cope with the challenges in the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture / Christine Frison, Francisco López and José T. Esquinas-Alcázar
- Annex 1 : History, milestones and calendar of meetings of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Annex 2 : Adoption and ratification process of the treaty and table of contracting parties by FAO regional groups
- Annex 3 : Overview of the main provisions of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Annex 4 : Country case-study : Brazil's actions and reactions to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture / Lidio Coradin and Maria José Amstalden Sampaio
- Annex 5 : Some stories on the inception of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture / José Ramón López Pontillo and Francisco Martínez Gómez.