First Global Symposium On Farmers Rights:
President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the First Global Symposium on Farmers’ Rights in New Delhi recently.
First Global Symposium on Farmers’ Rights:-
- Venue: ICAR Convention Centre, National Agricultural Science Centre, New Delhi.
- Date: September 12 to 15, 2023.
- The proposal to hold the first GFSR was mooted by the Government of India at the Ninth Session of the Governing Body (GB9) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (International Treaty) held in India in September 2022, which was agreed by the FAO.
- Organized by: Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (International Treaty) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome.
- Hosted by: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, in collaboration with the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPVFR) Authority, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), and ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR).
- Objective: to address critical issues related to farmers’ rights and their essential role in global food security and agriculture.
- Eminent scientists and resource persons will participate from 59 countries across the globe.
- They will deliberate on how to recognize and reward the enormous contribution that local and indigenous communities and farmers of all regions of the world have made to the conservation and development of plant genetic resources (PGR).
