Prof. José Esquinas-Alcázar
Prof. José Esquinas-Alcázar- talks about some of the pending major challenges the Treaty will have to face in the years to come, including its acceptance by a greater number of countries and the set up of national implementation programs.
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L'Institut national de recherche agricole (INRA) d'Uruguay, constatant qu'aucune des variétés de pommes de terres commerciales du pays ne présentait une résistance au flétrissement bactérien, s'est tourné vers sa variété sauvage apparentée locale, cherchant à reproduire la résistance naturelle de S. commersonii chez les variétés commerciales. Les tentatives initiales n'ont pas été couronnées de succès, car la distance génétique était trop grande. Le projet du Fonds fiduciaire pour le partage des avantages du Traité a ensuite contourné cet obstacle en utilisant une technique faisant appel à des intermédiaires pour introduire les traits génétiques de l'espèce sauvage apparentée dans le pool cultivé et a aussi découvert que S. commersonii est résistante aux conditions de sècheresse et de froid ainsi qu'au flétrissement bactérien. Langage: espagnol avec sous-titres en français
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El Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) de Uruguay, consciente de que no había resistencia a la marchitez bacteriana en ninguna de las variedades de patata comercial del país, recurrió a su afín silvestre autóctono y buscó mejorar la resistencia natural de la S. commersonii en las variedades comerciales de Uruguay. Los intentos iniciales no fueron exitosos porque la distancia genética era demasiado amplia. Actualmente, el Proyecto del Fondo de distribución de beneficios del Tratado logró sortear este obstáculo mediante el uso de una técnica puente, que lleva los rasgos genéticos valiosos del afín silvestre al acervo cultivado, y también descubrió que la S. commersonii tiene resistencia a las condiciones de sequía y frío, así como a la marchitez bacteriana.
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The experts that evaluated the projects proposals presented to the second Call talk about the importance and uniqueness of the benefit-sharing fund of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Date of publication: Nov 2011
Duration 7:26
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The experts that evaluated the projects proposals presented to the Second Call of the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture talk about the their role, the process and the lessons learned.
Date of publication: Nov 2011
Duration 6:16
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An unassuming wild vine brings power to Uruguayan potatoes
National Institution for Agricultural Research (INIA) of Uruguay, aware that there was no resistance to bacterial wilt in any of the country’s commercial potato varieties, turned to its native wild relative, seeking to breed S. commersonii’snatural resistance into Uruguay’s commercial varieties. Initial attempts were not successful because the genetic distance was too wide. Now, the Treaty Benefit-sharing Fund Project has circumvented this by using a “bridging” technique to take the valuable genetic traits of the wild relative into the cultivated pool and also has found that S. commersonii has resistance to drought and cold conditions as well as resistance to bacterial wilt.Language: Spanish with English subtitles
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Mr Onorati, Chair of Crocevia, addressed the participants of the 10th anniversary event of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and said that farmers are in a better situation to conserve and rescue the agricultural biodiversity with the creation of farmer seed networks -maisons des semences, in French. “Farmers are working to recover agricultural biodiversity in theirs farms”, he said.
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Cary Fowler, Executive Director of the GCDT, expressed the wish to have less pure politics and more science in the future of the Treaty and that all the countries would become implementers and enforcers of the Treaty.
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Emile Frison, Director General of Bioversity International, addressed the participants of the 10th anniversary event of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and talked about the enormous contribution of the CGIAR Centers to the Multilateral System of the International Treaty.
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The Director-General of FAO talks about the establishment of the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty and its importance.
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Mr Mozafari, Chair of the Fifth session of the Governing Body, addressed the participants of the 10th anniversary event of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and said that the world agricultural community hold the key for a higher and sustainable agriculture and food production now and in the future. “There is no need to look for a miracle elsewhere”, he said.
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Linda Collette, Secretary of the FAO Commission on Genetic resources, participated in the 10th anniversary event of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and referred to the recognition given in the Nagoya protocol to this instrument and on the need to harmonize the national implementation of both treaties.
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Pedro Brancante, Alternate Permanent Representative of Brazil to FAO, talks on the important role of the International Treaty for Brazil on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of this instrument. Mr Brancante says that since the very beginning of the Treaty Brazil has been a very active player in the discussions. He also refers to the work that it has been done at national level.
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Mr. Shantanu, Coordinator of the IFAD Grants Programme and is also addressed the participants of the 10th anniversary event of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and talked about the linkages between rural poverty and environmental innovation and the contribution of biodiversity to this kind of innovation.
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Dr. Bhatti, Secretary of the Governing Body of the International Treaty, announced to the participants of the 10th anniversary event of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture the new portfolio of projects to be funded under the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty.
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Monique Barbut, CEO & Chairperson of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), talks about the common objectives of the Treaty and the GEF.
Ms Barbut explaines that the GEF wants to engage the private sector in the conservation activities and that this fund is ready to facilitate significant synergies between the Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty.
Date: 14 November 2011
Duration: 3:53
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Shivaji Pandey, Director of FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division, explains the importance of plant genetic resources for agriculture.
In this video Dr. Pandey talks about countries interdependence on genetic resources generated outside their borders and on the consensus obtained by the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture as a major achievement to share those resources. He also talks about climate change, how farmers are affected by these changes and how the Treaty is assisting them in the field to conserve their traditional crops.
Date: 14 November 2011
Duration: 2:56
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Prof. M. S. Swaminathan is an Indian agriculture scientist known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in
In this video Prof. M. S. Swaminathan addresses the participants of the event organized in FAO to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the adoption of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
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Mr. Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Secretary-General of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), addresses the participants of the event organized in FAO to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the adoption of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Date: 14 November 2011
Duration 3:56
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Achim Steiner is a German expert in environmental politics and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
In this video Mr. Steiner addresses the participants of the event organized in FAO to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the adoption of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
Date: 14 November 2011
Duration: 4:16
Keywords: 10th Anniversary, genetic resources, seeds, agriculture, environment, international policy
