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Plant genetic resources and food security: stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
… conservation and benefit sharing, biotechnology and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), intellectual property and climate … of Acronyms and Abbreviations GMO genetically modified organism GPA Global Plan of Action GRIN Genetic Resources …
The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources
… Services GSP Generalised System of Tariff Preferences GMOs Genetically Modified Organisms IARCs International Agricultural Research … products, 12 The Protocol defines LMOs as "any living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic …
IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources
… the physiology and environmental factors of a single cell (organism) can be linked to their genetic makeup, and hence … of patent claims for genes of marine origin Country Marine Organism Patent Claims USA 199 Germany 149 Japan 128 France … growth over the past decade in the accumulation of marine organism gene patent claims (currently increasing by 12% per …
Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… in recent years because they often occur one-sidedly from genetically rich countries in the South to industrialized … offspring. ‘Units of heredity’ are those parts of a living organism that possess the quality to pass traits, such as DNA … all varieties of maize. They discovered that all maize was genetically most similar to a teosinte type from the tropical …
Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… or control risks associated with use and release of living modified organisms from biotechnology with likely adverse … possible to transfer genes iso- lated from any organism (plant, animals, virus, or bacterium) into a plant. … complementary characteristics to generate a population of genetically recombined plants, a small proportion of which, …
Persistent Organic Pollutants: Contaminated Site Investigation and Management Toolkit
… the criteria for chemical exposures will continue to be modified. Policies should also be updated accordingly. It is … country advances, the environmental policy will need to be modified accordingly. Despite serious economic and social … with the potential to cause serious effects on an organism, ecosystem or environment • exposure pathway: a …
Food and Agriculture Organization (2017), IPPC Procedure Manual for Standard Setting
… (2008) (Paragraph 89.3 and Appendix 8 to the CPM-3 report) modified procedures and criteria for identifying topics for … as diagnostics, seed pathology, specific pest free areas, organism or commodity specific standards or treatments. When … of the laboratory colony. Because thermotolerance can be genetically selected, it may be possible that different …
ABS Elements. Elements to facilitate domestic implementation of Access and Benefit-Sharing for different subsectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture
… genetic resources for food and agriculture and; (5) micro-organism genetic resources for food and agriculture; and (6) … GRFA or related activities that may merit exclusion or modified measures. II. Identification and consultation of … to human activity and many GRFA can be regarded as human-modified forms of genetic resources. - B.2 The maintenance …