The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has published the final Report and the seventeen Resolutions adopted by the Ninth Session of the Governing Body (New Delhi, September 2022) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Among the resolutions, the Session, which acknowledged and celebrated the contributions of all guardians, curators and users of crop diversity including farmer-breederes and their collaborative initiatives (Resolution 1), encouraged the implementation of Article 9 on Farmers’ Rights and proposed changes to the Multilateral Access and Benefit Sharing System, also considering the impact of digital sequence information on the latter.
For more background information on Farmers’ Rights in the Treaty, check our past Seed Policy Dialogue meeting!
