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ACCESS AND BENEFIT SHARING OF GENETIC RESOURCES

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16 April 2016

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This issue of Farming Matters presents cases that demonstrate the limited extent to which family farmers have been able to benefit from the ‘formal’ ABS process. It also uncovers some of the effective principles and mechanisms for access and benefit sharing such as community seed banks, and successful collaborations between researchers and farmers.

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Iran

Evolutionary populations: Living gene banks in farmers’ fields in Iran by Maryam Rahmanian, Maede Salimi, Khadija Razavi, Reza Haghparast, Salvatore Ceccarelli, Ali Razmkhah

Costa Rica

Improving access to vegetable seeds for resilient family farms in Costa Rica by Lindsey Herhcote, Maarten van Zonneveld, William Solano, Ernesto Méndez, Nelly Vasquez

Brazil

Seed banks and national policy in Brazil by Paulo Petersen, Gabriel Fernandes, Luciano Silveira, Emanoel Dias Da Silva

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources by Edith van Walsum, Michael Halewood
Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources for family farmers: Theory and practice by Robin Pistorius
Improving access to vegetable seeds for resilient family farms in Costa Rica by Lindsey Herhcote, Maarten van Zonneveld, William Solano, Ernesto Méndez, Nelly Vasquez
Interview: “The ABS system could be a thousand times simpler” by Robin Pistorius
Evolutionary populations: Living gene banks in farmers’ fields in Iran by Maryam Rahmanian, Maede Salimi, Khadija Razavi, Reza Haghparast, Salvatore Ceccarelli, Ali Razmkhah
Seed banks and national policy in Brazil by Paulo Petersen, Gabriel Fernandes, Luciano Silveira, Emanoel Dias Da Silva
Potato breeding in the Netherlands: successful collaboration between farmers and commercial breeders by Conny Almekinders, Loes Mertens, Jan van Loon

 

Implementing access and benefit sharing in eight countries by Ronnie Vernooy, Michael Halewood, Isabel López-Noriega, Gloria Otieno, Isabel Lapeña, Raymond Vodohue, Guy Bessette
Access and benefit sharing in participatory plant breeding in Southwest China by Yiching Song, Zhang Yanyan, Xin Song, Ronnie Vernooy
Industry benefits but does not pay its dues. Patents are an assault on genetic resources by Guy Kastler
Lessons for access and benefit sharing from community seed banks in India by Vanaja Ramprasad, Amelia Clements
Giving new life to peasant seeds in Ecuador by Ross Mary Borja, Pedro J. Oyarzún
Looking outside the box. Access and benefit sharing for family farmers in Zimbabwe by Bram de Jong, Andrew Mushita, Patrick Kasasa
Conclusions: Learning from farmer-led access and benefit sharing by Robin Pistorius, Janneke Bruil, Ronnie Vernooy
Further Reading by ILEIA
Selected books by ILEIA