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ProjectSupport for Strengthening the National Food Safety and Plant Health Protection Systems in Mauritius - TCP/MAR/3601 2020
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No results found.Crop production in the Republic of Mauritius isconstrained by outbreaks of pests and diseases. The lackof early warning systems to alert decision-makers andfarmers to emerging threats compromises agriculturalproduction and food safety, and leads to a reliance onthe use of agrochemicals that harm the environmentand increase the risk of residue in produce. In addition,Mauritius imports around 77 percent of its foodrequirements. As a result, there is a high risk of unsafefood and plant and animal pests and diseases enteringthe country, where capacity to detect, analyse andquarantine and to identify and respond to food hazardsand pests is low. -
Book (series)Understanding Access to Seeds and Plant Genetic Resources: What Can a Livelihoods Perspective Offer? 2003
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No results found.This study uses a livelihoods perspective to facilitate understanding of the role played by seeds and PGRs in rural people’s livelihoods and considers how a livelihood perspective may strengthen understanding of issues of access. A sustainable livelihoods perspective offers a way of thinking about the linkages among vulnerability, poverty and environmental or natural resource management. It is grounded and contextual, looking at how different people pursue a range and combination of livelihood strategies given a particular vulnerability context, combination of assets and set of opportunities and constraints presented by institutional structures and processes. -
Book (stand-alone)ABS Elements: Elements to facilitate domestic implementation of access and benefit-sharing for different subsectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture with explanatory notes 2019The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity has been hailed as a giant step towards the implementation of the third objective of the Convention: the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources, including by appropriate access to them. Implementing this third objective is intended to contribute to the conservation of biological diversity and the sustainable use of its components, the other two objectives of the Convention. The Protocol confronts policy-makers and administrators responsible for its implementation at the national level with a number of challenges. One of these challenges is the Protocol’s obligation to consider, in the development and implementation of access and benefit-sharing measures, the importance of genetic resources for food and agriculture and their special role for food security. The Elements to Facilitate Domestic Implementation of Access and Benefit-Sharing for Different Subsectors of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture aim to assist governments considering developing, adapting or implementing access and benefit-sharing measures, to take into account the importance of genetic resources for food and agriculture (GRFA), their special role for food security and the distinctive features of their different subsectors, while complying, as applicable, with international instruments. This publication contains the original ABS Elements as well as the explanatory notes describing, within the context of the ABS Elements, the distinctive features and specific practices of the different subsectors of GRFA. The explanatory notes were welcomed by the Commission and the FAO Conference in 2019.
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