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The CGIAR System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) initiated and sponsored this learning module, which was developed jointly by IPGRI and the IFPRI-ISNAR Program.
Special thanks go to Susan Bragdon, formerly Senior Scientist, Law and Policy at IPGRI, now an independent consultant, and Cary Fowler, Honorary Research Fellow and Senior Advisor to the Director-General at IPGRI, now Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, for planning and developing the content of the learning module.
Joel Cohen, formerly of ISNAR and now at IFPRI, provided leadership during the initial phase to assess training needs among national genetic resources programmes, which subsequently gave rise to this module. Contributors to the content for the 1st edition are acknowledged with great appreciation: Carlos Correa, Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Buenos Aires; José Esquinas-Alcázar, Secretary, and Clive Stannard, Liaison Officer, of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; Victoria Henson- Apollonio of the CGIAR Central Advisory Service on Intellectual Property (CAS); José Benjamín Falck-Zepeda, Economist, formerly at ISNAR, now with IFPRI; Emile Frison, then Director of the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP/IPGRI); Melinda Smale, Senior Economist at IPGRI; Michael Halewood, Legal Specialist at IPGRI; and Paul Heisey, Economist, of the Resource Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA. Thanks also go to Louise Sperling, Senior Scientist, CIAT, and former Facilitator of the Plant Breeding Group of the CGIAR System-wide Programme for Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation, for her contribution to the training exercises. In addition, members of the steering committee of the SGRP and many IPGRI staff provided comments
on the content.
Substantial contributions to revisions of the content for the 2nd edition are acknowledged with great appreciation from Carlos Correa, Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Buenos Aires; Bert Visser, Director, Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands; Manuel Ruiz, Director, Program of International Affairs and Biodiversity of the Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental; Gerald Moore, Honorary Research Fellow, Law and Policy, IPGRI; Victoria Henson-Apollonio, CGIAR Central Advisory Service on Intellectual Property (CAS); Kakoli Ghosh, Agricultural Officer (Capacity Building), Seeds and Plant Genetic Resources Service (AGPS), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; and Bonwoo Koo, Research Fellow, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI.
Zenete Peixoto França, Senior Research Fellow for the Learning and Capacity Strengthening Program, ISNAR Division of IFPRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, developed the instructional design of the module, and Elizabeth Goldberg, Head of the Capacity Development Research and Support Unit, at IPGRI, provided overall coordination and facilitation for its development as well as technical revision and quality control.
For the 1st edition, thanks go to Eca Zepeda (Consultant) for preparing this module, to Mirela Zoita of the ISNAR Learning Team, to Linda Sears and Amin Kassam for editing the module, and to Annie Huie, Evelyn Clancy and Layla Daoud of IPGRI, Rome, for their important contributions to the production of the module. The assistance provided by the management and staff of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the IPGRI Regional Office for Sub Saharan Africa in Nairobi in organizing and hosting the first workshop to test the module is gratefully acknowledged.
For the 2nd edition, a very special thanks go to Manuel Ruiz for serving as volume editor and to Kathleen Sheridan (Consultant) for copy editing—together keeping the many drafts flowing seamlessly across four continents to and from authors, editors, revisers and other members of the production team.
The additional learning plan (annexe 1) Review of Regional Policy Instruments, Developments and Trends was also developed jointly by IPGRI and IFPRI. Special thanks go to Susan Bragdon, formerly Senior Scientist, Law and Policy at IPGRI, now an independent consultant, for planning and editing the content of the regional modules. For drafting the content, we wish to acknowledge with great appreciation the work of Manuel Ruiz, Director, Program of International Affairs and Biodiversity of the Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental; Amer Jabarin, Professor, University of Jordan, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness; Mary Taylor, Regional Germplasm Centre Adviser/TAROGEN Team Leader, Secretariat of the Pacific Community; and Peter Gitahi Munyi, Chief Legal Officer and Kent Nnandozie, Director, Southern Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research Institute. We are particularly grateful for their willingness to continue working to incorporate all the constructive changes suggested by the participants of the Global Training of Trainers Workshop in Leipzig where the regional module was tested. Thanks go to Brad Fraleigh, Senior Officer, Plant and Genetic Resources Policy, FAO, and Michael Halewood, Senior Policy and Legal Specialist, IPGRI, for reviewing background papers. In addition, many other IPGRI staff provided comments on the content.
Zenete Peixoto França, Senior Research Fellow for Learning and Capacity Strengthening, ISNAR Division of IFPRI, in Ethiopia, developed the instructional design of the regional learning plans and facilitated both the Nairobi and the Leipzig workshops. Elizabeth Goldberg, Head of the Capacity Development Research and Support Unit at IPGRI, provided overall coordination and facilitation for the development of the module as well as technical revisions. We are particularly grateful for their energy and enthusiasm during the workshop and their dedication and drive in following through with all phases of the development and production of the revised learning module, with regional components, to its successful completion.
Thanks go to Eca Zepeda (Consultant) for preparing the regional learning plans, to Etsegenet Tsige of IFPRI for invaluable production assistance and to Evelyn Clancy, Michelle Lee and Marzia Fradusco of IPGRI for their important contributions to the production of the 2nd edition of this module. We would also like to thank Evelyn Clancy for her great skill and unflagging energy as a resource person for the workshop, capturing feedback from the participants and organizing all the documentation and manuscript revision process. Her management of the shared web-based forum and her continuing attention and keen eye have made the revisions to the module after the workshop run smoothly for the many people involved.
The assistance provided by the management and staff of InWEnt Capacity Building International in organizing, hosting and facilitating the Global Training of Trainers Workshop to review the module and regional components is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks to Peter Ringholz as co-facilitator. We also gratefully acknowledge the contributions by the resource people who came and volunteered their time to critique the module in action. The particular expertise of Shakeel Bhatti, Senior Programme Officer, Genetic Resources, Biotechnology and Associated Traditional Knowledge Section, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); Gerald Moore, Honorary Research Fellow, Law and Policy, IPGRI; Michael Halewood and Susan Bragdon was enormously valuable in improving the chapters, presentations and exercises. We also thank Yohannes Kassahun, Director of the Distance Learning and Research Centre, International Development Law Organization (IDLO); Tomme Young, Senior Legal Officer, IUCN-The World Conservation Union; and Kakoli Ghosh, Agricultural Officer (Capacity Building), Seeds and Plant Genetic Resources Service (AGPS), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, for their contributions to the discussions on complementary policy initiatives and how to create a multiplier effect.
We would also like to acknowledge the contributions of GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH), the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Genetic Resources Policy Initiative (GRPI) and the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme (SGRP) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) as sponsors, co-organizers or contributors to the Global Training of Trainers Workshop. We also wish to thank GTZ, GRPI and SGRP for their continuing support as contributors to the final revision and production of this learning module on CDROM and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) for their support for production and distribution of this module.
Finally, this learning module would not have been possible without the active contributions of leaders of national plant genetic resource programmes who completed the training needs assessment and those who participated in the testing and improvement of this module. We would like to note in particular those who participated in Leipzig and to thank them for their good humor, high spirits and insightful revisions: Manuel Ruiz, Director, Program of International Affairs and Biodiversity, Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambient (SPDA); Eid M. A. Megeed, Director, Technology Management and Commercialisation Office, Agricultural Research Center (ARC); Amer Jabarin, Professor, University of Jordan; Surrendra Raj Bhandari, Executive Director, Law Associates Nepal; Mariana Wongtschowski, ETC Foundation; Peter Gitahi Munyi, Chief Legal Officer, Southern Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (SEAPRI), International Centre Of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE); Jaime Estrella Engelmann, Project Coordinator, Genetic Resources Policy Initiative (GRPI), IPGRI Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa; Shawn Neill Sullivan, Intellectual Property Counsel, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT); Kakoli Ghosh, Agricultural Officer (Capacity Building), Seeds and Plant Genetic Resources Service (AGPS), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Pratibha Brahmi, Senior Scientist, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources; Miguel Pedro Guerra, Plant Genetic Resources Post-Graduate Training Programme, Centro de Ciências Agrárias (CCA)/Centre for Agricultural Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC); John Palamagamba Kabudi, Senior Lecturer in Law (Environmental Law), Faculty of Law, University of Dar Es Salaam; Mary Taylor, Regional Germplasm Centre Adviser/TAROGEN Team Leader, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC); Didier Balma, Direction Générale de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche scientifique, Institut de l'Environnement et Recherches Agricoles (INERA); Rose Ndegwa, Intellectual Property Officer, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); Getachew Mengistie Alemu, A/ Director General, Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office; Begoña Venero Aguirre, Member, Intellectual Property Board of Appeals of INDECOPI (National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property); Fiona Bayiga, Senior State Attorney, Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs; Pratap Kumar Shrestha, Executive Director, Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD); My Lan Hoang, PO in Institutional Development and Advocacy, VECO; Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, Head, Genetic Resources Center, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI); Lovemore Simwanda, Technical Management Advisor, Zambia National Farmers Union; Christopher Mulenga, Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre; Wondwossen Sintayehu Wondemagegnehu, Policy and Legislations Department, Environmental Protection Authority; Kirsten Probst, Sectoral Project: Managing Agro-Biodiversity in Rural Areas, GTZ; Alice Eymard-Duvernay, Senior Project Manager, InWEnt Capacity Building International, Division of Natural Resources and Biodiversity.