Side Event

Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Options in the Framework of the World Trade Order

Organizer
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation/ University of Berne, World Trade Institute

Date and Time
23 March 2006 13:15 - 15:0

Meeting
Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8)

Presentation of the results of scientific research into the options to foster traditional knowledge and plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and resulting products by instruments of international trade. The research was mandated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and effectuated by the World Trade Institute of the University of Berne, Switzerland, and will shortly be published by CABI.