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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

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    The Inventory

    This online version of the Inventory presents, for each measure, the title and a brief description with information on implementing organization(s), start year, objectives, core elements, key outcomes, and, if applicable, lessons learned. It thus allows users to quickly identify those examples that may be of interest to them. A hyperlink to the original submission is provided, which includes additional information, such as on the history and context of the presented measure, challenges encountered, or target groups reached. In this way, users can get a more comprehensive idea of the measure in question and the specific context for which it was developed.
     
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    101) Farmers’ Field School on Food Sovereignty to Support Food Self-Sufficiency and Seed Self-Reliance in Villages

    In Indonesia, IAARD and the Directorate General of Food Crops are implementing a program on Farmers’ Field school on food sovereignty in the framework of supporting food and seed self-sufficiency in villages is intended as an effort to increase participants' knowledge regarding the superiority and characters of rice varieties, in addition to techniques for producing, selecting, processing and handling seeds to produce quality seeds. Seed technology transfer to farmers / prospective producers / community-based seed sectors will improve the quality of seeds produced by such groups, improve their knowledge on rice germination processes and procedures, in addition to improving the availability of rice seeds at the development site. IAARD and the Directorate General of Food Crops have worked to develop models, strengthen the capacity of breeders, and to stabilize sustainable seed independence.

    Category: 9.Training, capacity development and public awareness creation

    Type of measure/practice: Technical; Administrative; Others

    102) Implementing the ITPGRFA in Italy - The National Programme RGV/FAO

    In 2004, Italy started a specific Programme on the implementation of the ITPGRFA, supporting the conservation activities of the public genebanks. From 2007 onwards, the Italian seed network Rete Semi Rurali (RSR) has also been involved in the Programme, which has the overall aim to promote sustainable use of PGRFA. This Programme supports and recognizes the role of seed networks and farmers' organizations for conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA, while at the same time contributing to the protection and re-creation of traditional knowledge and to the participation of farmers and farmers' networks in policy decision-making. Support to farmers and farmers' networks engaging in sustainable use of PGRFA can further be considered a non-monetary measure for Benefit-Sharing under Article 9 of the IPTGRFA; it contributes to the protection and use of traditional knowledge, promoting social networks and exchange of knowledge among different stakeholders. It also allows to create a policy and institutional framework for involving farmers' networks in the decision-making process. For example, the agreement between RSR and the Ministry of Agriculture on the planned activities includes support to the national delegation on issues related to Articles 6 and 9 of the ITPGRFA.

    Category: 2.Financial contributions to support farmers conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA such as contributions to benefit-sharing funds

    Type of measure/practice: Technical

    103) Traditional knowledge of the Andean cosmovision

    Between 2001 and 2005, in the framework of the in situ conservation project, the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA), together with several governmental and non-governmental organizations, studied the traditional knowledge of the ‘Andean cosmovision’. Objectives were to identify, describe and document knowledge systems associated to conservation and management of agrobiodiversity, including ancestral knowledge encoded in signs, secrets and rites, or relates to lunar movements or use of indicator plants. The Andean cosmovision comprises two main categories, ‘pacha’ (mother earth) and ‘ayllu’ (people, nature and spirit). Nature is conceived as a living organism; not only humans, animals and plants are perceived as living beings, but also soils, water, rivers, streams, hills, stones, winds, clouds, mists, rains, mountains or forests and all that exists. Bonds of reciprocity exist between all members of the ‘pacha’, which includes protection and mutual care. Farmers conserve and manage native crops relate to this cosmovision, including for example practices to avoid losses caused by natural phenomena, to choose appropriate planting dates or to give thanks to nature. The project documented festivities, rituals and ancestral customary practices relating to agrobiodiversity conservation that continued to be present in everyday life of farming communities.

    Category: 5.In-situ/on farm conservation and management of PGRFA, such as social and cultural measures, community biodiversity management and conservation sites

    Type of measure/practice: Technical; Others

    104) 1000 seed self-reliant villages

    In 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture launched Regulation 207.1/HK.140/C/02/2016 on Technical Guidelines for the Development of Seed Self-Reliance in Villages. The program is implemented by the Indonesian Agency for Agriculture Research and Development (IAARD). It gives special attention to villages that are isolated or located in marginal areas and thus have problems accessing quality seeds from external sources. The objective is to guarantee farmers’ access to good quality seeds, and for farmers to achieve seed self-sufficiency at village level by enhancing farmers’ capacities to produce and sell seeds to other farmers. The program is being implemented in all provinces of Indonesia; it has motivated farmers to breed and produce seeds. Mainly of local and farmer-bred varieties of rice, maize and soybean. To date, 1313 villages have participated in this program, with around 1000 farm households being reached in every village. Thus, an estimate of more than one million farm households has benefited in this program since 2016. Fully supported by government funds, achievements were quantitatively high. However, progress can be made as regards project sustainability, especially by strengthening links with breeding activities carried out by government research institutions and universities.

    Category: 6.Facilitation of farmers’ access to a diversity of PGRFA through community seed banks, seed networks and other measures improving farmers’ choices of a wider diversity of PGRFA.

    Type of measure/practice: Technical; Administrative

    105) Rolling the National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (NAP-PGRFA) together with farmers’ organizations

    The implementation of the Swiss National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (NPA-PGRFA) started in 1999. The Ordinance on Conservation and Sustainable Use of PGRFA referring to the NPA-PGRFA entered into force in 2015. It provides a stronger legal framework for the measures for conservation of PGRFA and regulates the management of the national gene bank of PGRFA in Switzerland. NPA-PGRFA strategies and guidelines are defined and implemented based on a multi-stakeholder approach, together with a wide range of private and public institutions. Farmers and farmers’ organizations can participate and profit in many ways from the NPA-PGRFA through promoted activities such as the maintenance and marketing of landraces/farmers' varieties; participatory plant breeding/participatory varietal selection; seed-exchange networks; facilitated access to information on plant genetic diversity so as capacity building. Three hundred projects have been completed so far, with 100 on-going projects in collaboration with regional and national organizations. These projects are listed in the national genebank. Key measures for the sustainable use of PGRFA are the characterization and evaluation of plant genetic resources as well as ensuring high phytosanitary standards for propagation material and promoting PGRFA for niche production.

    Category: 3.Approaches to encourage income-generating activities to support farmers’ conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA

    Type of measure/practice: Technical; Administrative; Legal