Farmers' Rights Resource Pages for Decision-Makers and Practitioners

This website is a resource for Farmers' Rights (FR) as they are addressed in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. FR are about enabling farmers to continue their work as stewards and innovators of agricultural biodiversity and about recognising and rewarding them for their contribution to the global pool of genetic resources. According to the website, FR are critical to ensuring the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture and, consequently, for food security. FR are also a means to fight against rural poverty in developing countries. This website has been developed as a tool for decision-makers, practitioners, and others involved in the realisation of FR. It is also intended as an information source for researchers and others interested in farming and advocacy.

The website includes history, legal status, and contents of FR; the state of implementation of these rights; and a database on legislation and policies. Also included are concrete recommendations on how to go about implementing FR, including a freely available workshop module and success stories from all over the world. The prospects for implementing FR internationally are also discussed. Overviews of literature and organisations related to FR, a calendar of coming events, and answers to 'frequently asked questions' (FAQ) are included. This website is from the Farmers' Rights Project of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), created with the support of the sectoral Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) project People, Food, and Biodiversity, which is implemented on behalf of the German Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ).