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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookSurvey of access and benefit-sharing country measures accommodating the distinctive features of genetic resources for food and agriculture and associated traditional knowledge
Background Study Paper No. 70
2023Also available in:
No results found.The Commission, at its Seventeenth Regular Session, requested its Secretary to prepare, for review by the Commission’s intergovernmental technical working groups: an up-to-date survey of existing legislative, administrative and policy approaches, including best practices, for access and benefit sharing (ABS) for the different subsectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture (GRFA) and traditional knowledge associated with GRFA held by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, with the aim of identifying typical approaches and lessons learned from their implementation, as well as challenges and possible solutions. The current survey comprises a baseline desktop review of legislation, policy and literature. It provides a review of how countries address the distinctive features of GRFA and traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources for food and agriculture (TKGRFA) based on the letter of their ABS legislative, administrative and policy measures rather than on how these measures have been implemented in practice. It therefore does not provide an analysis of the state of implementation, the challenges involved and possible solutions to these challenges. As such, it aims to provide a basis for future empirical research on how ABS measures work in practice for GRFA subsectors. A specific objective is to provide a typology of legislative, administrative and policy measures applying to ABS for GRFA and TKGRFA. -
MeetingMeeting documentDRAFT SURVEY OF ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING COUNTRY MEASURES ACCOMMODATING THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE AND ASSOCIATED TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE - CGRFA/WG-AnGR-11/21/Inf.8
Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - Eleventh session
2021Also available in:
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Book (series)General interest bookRapport de la quarante-troisième session de la Commission générale des pêches pour la Méditerranée (CGPM)
Athènes, Grèce, 4-8 novembre 2019
2020Ce rapport résume les discussions tenues au cours de la quarante-troisième session de la Commission générale des pêches pour la Méditerranée (CGPM) et de la dixième session du Comité de l’administration et des finances. Au cours de la session, les progrès accomplis dans les activités en matière de pêche, d’aquaculture, d’application et dans d’autres domaines stratégiques ont été examinés. Par ailleurs, les résultats de la deuxième évaluation des performances de la CGPM ont été commentés. S’agissant de la gestion des pêches et de l’aquaculture dans la zone d’application de la CGPM, la Commission a adopté au total huit recommandations contraignantes portant sur les aspects suivants: utilisation de dispositifs de concentration du poisson ancrés dans la pêche à la coryphène commune en mer Méditerranée, informations concernant les accords d’accès dans la zone d’application de la CGPM, établissement d’une liste de navires présumés avoir exercé des activités de pêche illicite, non déclarée et non réglementée dans la zone d’application de la CGPM, exploitation durable de la dorade rose en mer d’Alboran et du corail rouge en mer Méditerranée, plans de gestion pluriannuels pour les pêcheries de turbot en mer Noire et la pêche démersale durable en mer Adriatique, et mesures de gestion pour la pêche au chalut durable ciblant le gambon rouge et la crevette rouge dans le canal de Sicile. En outre, la Commission a discuté des questions liées au mandat du Secrétaire exécutif de la CGPM. Enfin, la Commission est convenue de son programme de travail pour la prochaine période intersessions et a adopté son budget autonome pour 2020 et 2021, s’élevant à 2 611 142 USD par an, ainsi qu’une série d’actions stratégiques qui seront financées au moyen de ressources extrabudgétaires. Elle a également approuvé à l’unanimité la nouvelle composition des bureaux du Comité scientifique consultatif de l’aquaculture et du Groupe de travail sur la mer Noire et est convenue de renouveler le mandat du bureau du Comité d’application pour deux ans. -
BookletHigh-profileCurrent status of agriculture in the caribbean and implications for agriculture policy and strategy
2030 - Food, Agriculture and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean - Document Nº14
2019Also available in:
No results found.This summary identifies key trends in agriculture in the Caribbean and the related opportunities for investments in support of growth, poverty reduction, and sustainability. It presents, to the extent to which available data and information allow, a sectorial review of agriculture in the region and identifies opportunities, prospects and investment priorities. The document presents a description of the structure of the rural environment, demography, the supply of goods and services, the main inequalities, levels of poverty, importance and role of family agriculture and other economic activities (diversification), the main features of rural society and the presence of the private sector. It will also discuss trends in migration and other social or economic processes relevant to the description of the rural situation. The text will also discuss the importance of rural development in achieving the SDGs by identifying the current situation and the extent of change required to meet the SDGs. -
MeetingMeeting documentGlobal Symposium on Soil Erosion - Concept Note
Rome, Italy, 15-17 May 2018
2019Also available in:
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