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LIFE Method of Participatory Breed Characterisation

LIFE Method of Participatory Breed Characterisation. Understands indigenous livestock breeds as products of social networks that operate according to certain rules. Considers Intellectual Property Rights implications of research www.pastoral.peoples.org. What is „Prior Informed Consent“ ?.

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LIFE Method of Participatory Breed Characterisation

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  1. LIFE Method of Participatory Breed Characterisation Understands indigenous livestock breeds as products of social networks that operate according to certain rules. Considers Intellectual Property Rights implications of research www.pastoral.peoples.org

  2. What is „Prior Informed Consent“ ? Prior Informed Consent is NOT A Way of Getting People/Communities to Participate in a Project

  3. „Prior Informed Consent“ = Concept and Legal requirement that is enshrined in the UN-Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) The CBD is a legally binding framework that came into force in 1993 and gives countries sovereignty over their genetic resources and stresses the importance of in-situ conservation. It stipulates that access to genetic resources has to be provided on mutually agreed terms and provides for the"fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources”.

  4. CBD Article 15.5: “access to genetic resources is to be granted on mutually agreed terms, and subject to prior informed consent of the contracting party and fair and equitable sharing of the research and development results and commercial benefits”

  5. CBD Article 8j: encourages the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.

  6. Reason for these provisions: Concerns about companies, research institutions, and individuals acquiring and using genetic resources and indigenous knowledge from biodiversity rich countries without consent of the rightful owners. Cases of misappropriation are known.

  7. “Bonn Guidelines” on ABS: Prior informed consent for taking samples from animal genetic resources should be given by the “competent national authority”. This authority in turn should ensure that relevant lower levels of government and the livestock breeding community in question have the right to agree, or torefuse, the decision.

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