🌱🌀 WHERE SEEDS ARE BORN, RESISTANCE TAKES ROOT
🌾💚From Latin America —where some of the most diverse seeds are produced, preserved, & resisted — we reaffirm: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources #ITPGRFA must protect what has been collectively created & cared for across generations.
Despite twelve years of negotiations, delegates at #ITPGRFA #GB11 failed to reach consensus on a package of measures to enhance the functioning of the @planttreaty Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
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#agriculture #food
Want to dig deeper into Friday's deliberations at #ITPGRFA #GB11 in Peru?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
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#food #agriculture @planttreaty.bsky.social
Talks at #ITPGRFA #GB11 went late on the capacity-development strategy and action plan, the Funding Strategy, and farmers' rights
Closed-door consultations continued on the enhancement of the Treaty's Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
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Want to dig deeper into Thursday's #ITPGRFA #GB11 deliberations?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
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At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, plenary addressed draft resolutions, including on the implementation and operations of the Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
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#ITPGRFA #food #agriculture #farmers
At #ITPGRFA #GB11, as talks on the enhancement of the Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing of plant genetic resources for #food and #agriculture moved behind closed doors, issues related to genetic sequence data #DSI took center stage
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🌱 Who controls the future of seeds?
At #ITPGRFA talks in Lima, the inclusion of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) is a flashpoint.
🚨Without it, seed companies could patent farmers’ seeds as private data: no consent, no benefit sharing.
📢Bring DSI under the Treaty.
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Want to dig deeper into Monday's talks at #ITPGRFA Governing Body 11?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
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#agriculture #foodsecurity #GB11 @planttreaty.bsky.social
In the Andean highlands, farming communities continue to cultivate seeds and tubers stewarded by their ancestors over centuries—genetic resources that are rightfully theirs. Yet the growing risk of digital biopiracy threatens to erode their Farmers’ Rights and the sovereignty embedded in these living legacies.
Agricultural biodiversity insures against uncertain futures
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#ITPGRFA in #megadiverse Peru must also ensure digital biopiracy does not erode Farmers’ Rights and sovereignty
@GRAIN.bsky.social
@FoodEthicsCouncil.bsky.social
#FarmersRights
#Agroecology
#FoodSovereignty
In the Andean highlands, farming communities continue to cultivate seeds and tubers stewarded by their ancestors over centuries—genetic resources that are rightfully theirs. Yet the growing risk of digital biopiracy threatens to erode their Farmers’ Rights and the sovereignty embedded in these living legacies.
"Agricultural biodiversity is not a luxury; it is our insurance policy against an uncertain future."
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#ITPGRFA GB meets in #megadiverse Peru
@planttreaty.bsky.social
@AgroBioDiverse.bsky.social
@CoventryCAWR.bsky.social
#FarmersRights
#Agroecology
#FoodSovereignty
🌾Our KWS colleague Andrea Mertens presented the state of play of the #FAO #ITPGRFA and Access & Benefit Sharing at #Euroseeds2025, highlighting the vital role of genetic resources in ensuring global food security. 🌾
Chard grown on FAO HQ roof
Working Group Co-Chair Sunil Archak with delegates from the Latin America and the Caribbean region (GRULAC)
On Wednesday at #ITPGRFA Working Group talks, delegates discussed a revised proposal that maintains a dual mechanism for access to crop genetic resources in @planttreaty.bsky.social's Multilateral System
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#food #DSI #foodsecurity #agriculture
On the first day of #OEWG12 to Enhance the Functioning of the #ITPGRFA Multilateral System, delegates heard presentations on seed sector sales and profitability.
They also addressed the attractiveness of a proposed subscription system versus the predictability of funding.
#seeds #genetics #DSI
