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The Group, which was inaugurated at ABS-8 last November, will hold a luncheon meeting on Friday 26 March. All women participants at ABS-9 are warmly invited to attend including representatives from governments, NGOs, ILCs, civil society and industry. The purpose of the luncheon is to get to kn ...
A diverse panel will describe normative benefit sharing practices currently being used in their research communities. This panel will provide insights about benefit sharing practices from a range of perspectives: among basic biological researchers (in the US university and small biotechnology co ...
The purpose of this event will be to talk about the formation of formal networks to protect natural resources and traditional knowledge. The workshop will discuss these issues within the larger context of the indigenous movement in the Americas. It will also provide specific pitfalls in the fo ...
There is increasing recognition of the critical need to enable indigenous peoples and local communities to effectively engage with all stages of ABS agreements. This event will focus on innovative participatory approaches and tools that aim to empower communities to take ownership over ABS proce ...
Speakers will address how – in the longer term -- access and benefit sharing norms under the International Regime could be fashioned to support the use of microbial genetic resources in agricultural research and development, ultimately contributing to increased food security. Because there is n ...
Community protocols are an important tool for facilitating PIC and equitable benefit-sharing with ILCs. Experience will be presented of: 1) a Quechua community biocultural protocol for Equitable Benefit-Sharing in the Potato Park, Peru - a legal instrument already functioning in practice; 2) a K ...
The goal of this event will be to talk about provisions needed to ensure that traditional knowledge associated to natural resources is protected under ABS. Concrete examples will be provided and indigenous models will be used to exemplified the need to protect traditional knowledge using indige ...
This side event aims to present and discuss substantial issues that have been only marginally addressed or debated under the negotiations of the International Regime on ABS. These include: analysis of the concepts of sovereignty and genetic resources as natural information widely shared around ...
The event will discuss the outlines of a positive strategy to strengthen legal certainty in the International Regime while supporting WIPO's role in finding coherence across national IP systems through the IGC on ABS, TK and Folklore
Jointly, stakeholders from a provider and a user country (Colombia and Switzerland) present their complementary models for contracts especially designed for non-commercial academic research. The Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá presents its proposal of a "Contrato Marco" (framework co ...
To show the non-commercial benefits of the cooperation relationship and to present how the project has been implemented and is conducted in the host country, placing an emphasis on the non-commercial benefits for the countries of origin. DFG will present the DFG-Ecuador Project / RU 816
The event will provide information on the experiences and update on recent developments in the operation and functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
The view of the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association on the effect of the International Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing on the Biological Control Industry
The functionality and strength of an international regime on ABS depends to a great extent on its scope. Whether the parties will agree to a broad and inclusive scope depends on how the different sub-sectors of genetic resources will be dealt with in an international regime and what genetic reso ...
The Chair and other Members of the Bureau of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will present the Commission's work on access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources for food and agriculture, including FAO Conference Resolution 18/2009.
Access to genetic resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is one of the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) along with conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Thus implementation of ABS provisions within the Convention need as much attention as the othe ...