Side Event
Formal - Informal sector partnerships as models of Access and Benefit-Sharing and Institutionalizing agricultural biodiversity conservation
Organizer
Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment / Community Biodiversity Development and Conservation Program / Biodiversity Use and Conservation Asia Programme
Date and Time
20 March 2006 18:30 - 20:15
Presentation of case studies and statements from farmers, representatives from public research institutions or public seed sector. Linkages/partnership between the formal (public research institutions, government agencies, academe) and informal (farmers, communities) seed sector promotes a valuable access and benefit-sharing model, where benefits are not only seen from the profit-sharing framework, but puts to good and actual practice an effective means for transfer of technology and capacity-building. Further, these partnerships help promote the rights of farmers to plant genetic resources, as well as agricultural biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.