Meeting
Exploring the need for specific measures for access and benefit-sharing of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture
On 8 – 10 December 2010 Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands (CGN) organized an international expert workshop in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The meeting was sponsored by Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, the Netherlands, Norwegian Ministry for Agriculture and Food and the Federal Office for Agriculture, Switzerland.
The objectives of this workshop were:
- To better understand major factors driving the international exchange of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture
- To Identify potential impacts of the adoption of a Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing on the exchange and use of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture
- To explore the need and options for appropriate sectoral measures for Access and Benefit-Sharing regarding animal genetic resources for food and agriculture
Participants were invited from the following sectors:
- (government) policy makers
- public research and breeding
- private research and breeding
- farmers’ organizations and other NGOs
Documents
- Biber-Klemm and Temmerman: Rights to Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Biber-Klemm Correa and Temmerman: Exploring the need for specific measures for access and benefit-sharing of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture
- Broxham and Rollefson: A stakeholder view on fair and equitable exchange of AnGR: a civil society perspective
- Correa: Material transfer agreements
- Drucker: Economics of AnGR Conservation and Sustainable Use, and Implications for Policy Options in a Changing World
- Hoffmann: International flows of animal genetic resources – historical perspective, current status and future expectations
- Mariante and Raymond: An overview and analysis of issues and current practices in the international exchange of animal genetic resources
- Martyniuk and Diop: Sense and nonsense of a fully developed binding treaty on AnGR (from an ABS perspective). A cost-benefit analysis
- Merks: Current and past practices of models and standards in the use of AnGR and in ABS agreements in research and breeding
- Nimbkar and Arendonk: Recent trends in the global organization of animal breeding
- Rovere: A stakeholder view on fair and equitable exchange of AnGR, a government perspective, Uruguay: a food-exporting country
- Stalhammer and Knap: A stakeholder view on fair and equitable exchange of AnGR; an industry perspective
- Thakur: The need for environmental/genetic impact assessments of gene flows. Possible positive and negative effects