Side Event

GURTs: Potential implications and impacts on farmers’ rights

Organizer
Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment - Community Biodiversity Development and Conservation Program - Biodiversity Use and Conservation Asia Programme

Date and Time
24 March 2006 18:30 - 20:15

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

Presentation on the potential impact of GURTs to agricultural biodiversity and the rights of farmers to seeds. Emphasis on how terminator technology will not only terminate the diversity of genetic resources, but it will also terminate the rights and lives of farmers and farming communities.