Survey of access and benefit-sharing country measures accommodating the distinctive features of genetic resources for food and agriculture and associated traditional knowledge

Humphries, F., Laird, S., Wynberg, R., Morrison, C., Lawson, C., Kolesnikova, A.

Survey 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

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 92 p.

Author Humphries, F., Laird, S., Wynberg, R., Morrison, C., Lawson, C., Kolesnikova, A.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-134877-2

Revision First revision

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Synopsis (short abstract) 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.

Revised August 2023. First version published 2021.

Statutory body / Meeting title Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)

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Humphries, F., Laird, S., Wynberg, R., Morrison, C. Lawson, C. and Kolesnikova, A. 2023. Survey of access and benefit-sharing country measures accommodating the distinctive features of genetic resources for food and agriculture and associated traditional knowledge. First revision. Rome, FAO on behalf of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cb6525en

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