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SGRP Annual Report 2006: Of the CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources Programme
No full textThe System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) unites all of the independent centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in a collaborative effort to sustain biodiversity for current and future generations. The diversity of plant, animal, forest and aquatic genetic resources supplies the building blocks for sustainable agriculture. SGRP harnesses the expertise and experience of the centres and their partners to put this diversity to work in fighting poverty, bringing health and food security, and protecting the environment. SGRP provides the CGIAR with a flexible means of working in the genetic resources arena, serving as an umbrella and communication mechanism to optimize, bring cohesiveness, and add value to the wide range of genetic resources activities pursued by the CGIAR centres. Through SGRP, centres share information and knowledge, conduct joint research, establish common policies and practices, stay abreast of developments in the global genetic resources sphere, and contribute to international debate
SGRP annual report 2004/2005: Of the CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources Programme
No full textSGRP seeks to improve the effectiveness of the CGIAR System in managing genetic resources as global public goods, including the delivery of research, knowledge and capacity-development. The Programme harnesses the expertise, experience, existing efforts and common areas of interest of centres and their partners, for coherent System-wide action. This report presents an overview of the Programme's activities in 2004/05. These include: an ambitious three-year project to upgrade the facilities and operations of the genebanks of the centres supported by the CGIAR; improvements to SINGER-the System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources; the development and adoption of a common policy on transgenes; inputs to the development of a Standard Material Transfer Agreement (SMTA) under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; contributions to establishing a global Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research; and international workshops that helped to advance the centres' thinking with regard to aspects of agricultural biodiversity beyond crops, the first on options and strategies for conserving farm animal genetic resources and the second on methodologies for assessing the value of crop, tree, livestock and aquatic genetic resources
The strategy of the CGIAR system-wide genetic resources programme
No full textThis brochure provides an introduction to the CGIAR System-wide genetic resources programme's five thematic areas. These five areas are: policy, public awareness, information, knowledge and technology and capacity building
Annual report 2002 of the CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources Programme
No full textThis report examines the new Treaty and its ramifications for the Future Harvest Centres (p. 5). It also covers two of the crucial elements of developing a global system, the costing studies (p. 14) that supply part of the rationale for the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and the launch of the Trust itself (p.11). There are articles too on recent developments in the System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources (SINGER, p. 17) and on regular programme activities (p. 2). In the period covered by this report, SGRP received funding from Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland and the World Bank. The CGIAR System-wide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis in Technology Development and Institutional Innovation (PRGA) hosted at CIAT provided funding for the workshop on participatory plant breeding. SGRP is grateful for all the support it receives
Booklet of CGIAR Centre Policy Instruments, Guidelines and Statements on Genetic Resources, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights - Version II
No full textThis booklet contains the common genetic resources related policies of the Future Harvest Centres. These policies have been endorsed for System-wide use by the CGIAR Members, the Genetic Resources Policy Committee (GRPC) and/or the Centre Directors Committee. The System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP), through the Inter-Centre Working Group on Genetic Resources and in consultation with FAO, formulates, reviews and recommends for System-wide adoption, policy instruments and guidelines concerning the management of genetic resources, including those governing the in-trust plant genetic resources collections held in accordance with agreements signed between Centres and the FAO in 1994.A number of individual Centres have produced similar booklets for their Centre or on behalf of the CGIAR System. This compilation produced by the SGRP and GRPC contains the current versions of the System-wide policy documents. The policies described herein are subject to change over time and updated versions of this booklet will be produced as needed.The first section of the booklet concerns the policies and guidelines for managing the in-trust plant genetic resources collections. The second section concerns the policies for acquiring, managing and transferring animal, aquatic and microbial genetic resources. The final section presents CGIAR and Centre Committee statements on a number of genetic resources and related issues
SGRP annual report 2003 of the CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources Programme
No full textActivities in 2003 continued to build on previous efforts and to launch prominent new initiatives. For example, the growing awareness of the importance of agricultural biodiversity for improved livelihoods and poverty alleviation provided the impetus for SGRP to hold an international meeting on the subject. That in turn resulted in the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity welcoming the meeting's call for an international facilitation unit to coordinate and develop research on agricultural biodiversity (see page 15). Work to establish the unit is now under way. Efforts to help countries and national partners to come to grips with international policy and law on genetic resources has also received a boost with the publication of a learning module on 'Law and Policy of Relevance to the Management of Plant Genetic Resources' (see page 19). After development and testing, the module has been released so that people with practical management and policy-making responsibilities for plant genetic resources canensure that their governments and institutions are meeting legal requirements and developing appropriate policies. Regionalized versions are now being developed. The Global Crop Diversity Trust has been active too, focusing in particular on issues of governance. An Interim Panel of Eminent Experts was appointed to establish the Trust as an independent international fund (see page 9). While the Trust works for the long-term support of genebanks, SGRP coordinated efforts to secure the immediate upgrades that the genebanks of the Future Harvest Centres need in order to ensure that their activities meet the highest internationally agreed standards. An application to the World Bank for support was granted and the vital process of improving genebank operations has begun in earnest, with considerable results already visible (see page 5). SINGER, the Systemwide Information Network for Genetic Resources, continues to improve access to information about genetic resources (see page 12)
Booklet of CGIAR Centre Policy Instruments, Guidelines and Statements on Genetic Resources, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights - Version III
No full textThis booklet and its earlier editions contains agreements that the Centres have made with international bodies, and CGIAR system-wide policies, guidelines, and related legal instruments that the Centres have adopted concerning genetic resources and intellectual property. It is developed primarily for use by the Centres to facilitate awareness of, and compliance with, the policies and instruments included. The first section of this booklet includes agreements, policies and guidelines related to the management of the Centre-hosted in-trust collections of plant genetic resources. The second section concerns the policies for acquiring, managing and transferring animal, aquatic and microbial genetic resources. The third section is a bit of a ‘mixed bag’ of guidelines and statements concerning biotechnology, biosafety, intellectual property rights and interaction with the Private Sector. The final section consists of the CGIAR’s Ethical Principles relating to Genetic Resources
Report of the internally commissioned external review of the CGIAR genebank operations
No full textIn 1995 the SGRP commissioned an External Review of the CGIAR Centre Genebank Operations. This review was conducted by a panel and involved 20 experts from national and regional genetic resources programmes, including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The purpose of this review was to assess the technical, scienetific and financial constraints facing the Centre genebanks and to identify opportunities for improving their operations and the services they provide. This synthesis report contains overall recommendations and the collective response of the Inter-Centre Working Group on Genetic Resources to these recommendations
Report of the internally commissioned external review of the CGIAR genebank operations: Annex: Centres' Responses to the External Review
No full textIn 1995 the SGRP commissioned an External Review of the CGIAR Centre Genebank Operations. This review was conducted by a panel and involved 20 experts from national and regional genetic resources programmes, including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The purpose of this review was to assess the technical, scienetific and financial constraints facing the Centre genebanks and to identify opportunities for improving their operations and the services they provide. The synthesis report was published in 1996. This Annex, published in 1997, contains the responses of the CGIAR Centres to the external review
Leaving room in the CBD's ABS protocol for the future development of specialized access and benefit-sharing arrangements: The example of agricultural microbial genetic resources
No full textSince 2004, Bioversity International, through the CGIAR’s System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP), has contributed to the ongoing negotiations of a protocol on access and benefit-sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This policy brief highlights the importance of maintaining flexibility in the protocol to develop future specialized international arrangements for access and benefit-sharing for different types of genetic resources. It presents the example of agricultural microbial genetic resources (AMiGR)
