Guidelines for Developing a National Strategy for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
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These guidelines shall assist countries to implement the Second GPA in harmony with other relevant national and international commitments. Cognizant of each country’s needs, capacities and constraints, national strategies for PGRFA should identify a national vision, goals and objectives, and the corresponding plan of action, including responsibilities, resources, and timeframes for activities relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA.
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Guidelines for Developing a National Strategy for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) are defined as any genetic material of plant origin of actual or potential value for food and agriculture ¹. Serving as a reservoir of heritable traits, these resources are indispensable ‘raw materials’ for generating superior crop varieties. The variety of choices that they provide permit the much desired diversification of crops, foods and farming systems, all of which are indices of the resilience of agricultural systems. PGRFA also provide invaluable ecosystem services that contribute to sustainable agricultural production systems. To prevent losses and maximize the availability of a wide range of PGRFA for current and future requirements, there is an urgent need to ensure more systematic conservation and sustainable use efforts at national levels.
This need has been recognized by international conventions and agreements, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Treaty) and the Second Global Plan of Action for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Second GPA). They each underline the commitment of governments to ensure that conservation and use of PGRFA continues to be a key element in the efforts to alleviate poverty, increase food security and provide us with a safety-net for the future of agriculture. They also highlight the need to develop and implement national strategies as means to attaining these goals.
These guidelines shall assist countries to implement the Second GPA in harmony with other relevant national and international commitments. Cognizant of each country’s needs, capacities and constraints, national strategies for PGRFA should identify a national vision, goals and objectives, and the corresponding plan of action, including responsibilities, resources, and timeframes for activities relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA. A National Strategy for PGRFA should:
■Enhance the efficiencies of countries’ interventions to domesticate the Second GPA, and hence implement the Treaty, and also meet other international obligations;
■Provide a single overarching framework for the management of PGRFA in order to attain clearly defined goals within a country’s overall agricultural, environmental, and economic policies and development agenda;
■Facilitate the monitoring of progress as priority activities and their timeframes are clearly identified;
■Improve the national-level coordination of all PGRFA activities across the constituent sectors thereby enabling concerted actions, the pooling of resources and the avoidance of wasteful duplications and rivalry;
■Foster partnerships and linkages that are underpinned by mutually beneficial collaborative endeavors; and
■Facilitate the ease of developing country reports to regional and global initiatives, frameworks, agreements, etc.
In practical terms, a National Strategy for PGRFA may help a country in setting priorities, assign budgetary and other resources, build capacity, and design the seamless dovetailing of all aspects of national PGRFA management in service of reaching its own national goals. It is also a tangible means for demonstrating effectively that PGRFA, and hence their conservation and sustainable use, underpin food security, sustainable crop production systems and rural development. As a direct result, a country will be in a position to safeguard its PGRFA assets; facilitate access to needed genetic materials and govern the sharing of the accruing benefits; add value to them through crop improvement; and sustainably intensify crop production as may be needed.
A National Strategy can permit the tracking of the benefits of PGRFA – from the conserved materials through enhancements to the tangible seeds and planting materials that engender higher yields, enhanced income generation, improved nutrition, etc. Such ease in demonstrating impact will be as beneficial to the researcher seeking to show the utility of resources invested in the management of PGRFA as it is to the policy makers in need of justification and basis for the assignment of scarce resources to competing interests and needs.
The usefulness of a National Strategy for PGRFA depends on the preparatory steps that lead to its formulation, the provisions made for its implementation and the commitment from authorities and stakeholders.
A set of draft voluntary guidelines for national plant genetic resources strategies to aid countries in the implementation of the Second GPA has been prepared at the request of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
To help national authorities in developing a systematic approach to the conservation and use of PGRFA, these voluntary guidelines, that are customizable to a country’s needs and circumstances, provide an outline of the step-wise processes that may be followed for preparing a National Strategy for PGRFA. Through a step-by-step approach, the voluntary guidelines present a model process
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