Views, Experiences and Best Practices As an Example of Possible Options for the National Implementation of Article 9 of the International Treaty
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Views, Experiences and Best Practices as an example of possible options for the national implementation of Article 9 of the International Treaty Note by the Secretary At its second meeting of the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights (AHTEG), the Expert Group agreed on a revised version of the template for collecting information on examples of national measures, best practices and lessons learned from the realization of Farmers’ Rights This document presents the updated information on best practices and measures of implementing Article 9 of the International Treaty submitted by Indonesia on 31 July 2019. The submission is presented in the form and language in which it was received. REPORT MEASURES/PRACTICES OF FARMERS’ RIGHT IN INDONESIA Submitted by NATIONAL FOCAL POINT ITPGRFA INDONESIA INDONESIAN CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC RESOURCES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (ICABIOGRAD) INDONESIAN AGENCY FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (IAARD) MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE JULY 31, 2019 INTRODUCTORY As stated under Article 9 (Art. 9) of the International Treaty of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), Contracting Parties are obliged to recognize the enormous contribution that the local and indigenous communities and farmers have made sustainably conservation and development of the plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) over time and generation (Art. 9.1). More over, Contracting Parties are responsible to protect the traditional knowledge relevant to PGRFA (Art. 9.2a), realizing farmers’ right to equitably participate in sharing benefits arising from the utilization of PGRFA (Art. 9.2b), and farmers’ right to pasrticipate in making decisions, at the national level, on matters related to the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA. However, nothing in this Article shall be interpreted to limit any rights that farmers have to save, use, exchange, and sell farm-saved seed/propagating material, subject to national law and as appropriate. Considering the urgent needs to realize the implementation of Farmers’ Right around the world, a group of expert was established in the last session of Government Body (GB-7) in Kigali, Rwanda on 2017, namely Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Right (AHTEG-FR). The mandate of the the Expert Group was to produce an inventory of national measures and to develop options for encouraging, guiding, and promoting the realization of Farmers’ Right, as consideration for the Governing Body. This group has been conduct two times meeting, i.e. on 11-14 September 2018 and 20-23 May 2019, and from these meetings, there have been produced document IT/GB-8/AHTEG- 2/19/3, IT/GB-8/AHTEG-2/19/3Add.1, and IT/GB-8/AHTEG-2/19/4. These documents are rolling document and should be configured in a manner that would allow for the inclusion of new information and possible updates. Therefore, the Expert Group further requested for the Secretary to accept new submissions and that only submissions received by 31 July 2019 will be included in the updated version of the draft Inventory. In accordance with that, at the national level, National Focal Point of ITPGRFA in Indonesia, i.e. Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development (ICABIOGRAD)-Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Reserch and Development (IAARD) under Ministry of Agriculture has organized a national workshop in term of raising awareness of the global position of Multilateral Systems, and inventory of the implementation of Farmers’ Right from the national stakeholders. The workshop was held on 17 July 2019 in Bogor, West Java and attended by 44 participants from various institutions/organizations, i.e. Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, University, NGO, and Indonesian Institute of Sciences. From this workshop, participants agreed to contribute for the updating information of the implementation of Farmers’ Right and to date there have been 12 stakeholders participated as contributor for realization of Farmers’ Right of this report, i.e. 1) Center for Plant Variety Protection and Agricultural Permits, 2) Directorate General of Food Crops, 3) Directorate General of Estate Crops, 4) Directorate General of Intelectual Property, 5) National Commission on Genetic Resources, 6) Indonesian Center for Horticulture Research and Development, 7) Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development, 8) Indonesian Center for Rice Research, 9) Bogor Agricultural University, 10) Gadjah Mada University, 11) Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation, and 12) Serikat Petani Indonesia. This report contains of two main sections, i.e. Section A for the table summary of the inventory of measures/practices of Farmers’ Right in Indonesia, informing a short description and type of measures/practices, which are provision under Article 9 in which the measures/practices have been addressed. Details of each measures/practices may be found under Section B, which informs the history, geographical outreach, number(s) of farmer(s)/communities involved, impact of the measures/practices, and lesson learned gain from the activity that can be reffered by other stakeholders/contracting parties. A. TABLE SUMMARY OF INVENTORY ON MEASURES/PRACTICES OF FARMERS’ RIGHT IN INDONESIA No Title of Short description of measure/practice Country Link Provision of Art. 9 addressed Type measure/practice 9.1 9.2a 9.2b 9.2c 9.3 egal L Other Technical Administrative Category 1. Recognition of local and indigenous communities’, farmers’ contributions to conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA, such as awards and recognition of custodian/guardian farmers 1 √ Award for breeder Awarding awards to breeder farmers is part of a series of Indonesia - √ farmers who contribute awards in various fields. This activity was carried out since in conservation and 2017 and in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture, sustainable use of Brawijaya University, Malang East Java. There are two PGRFA categories for farmers, namely breeder’s farmers and local governments who have high number to register and utilize and/or develop local variety. 2 √ √ Award for farmers who Award for farmers who conserve genetic resources is given Indonesia √ √ conserve genetic regularly every two years since 2014 at the National resources which are Congress of Genetic Resources held by the National given at National Commission on Genetic Resources (NCGR-Komnas SDG). Congress of Genetic The winners are selected only from farmers who are Resources proposed by the Regional Commission on Genetic Resources (RCGR-Komda SDG) in every province. Those who conserve the highest variation of both intra- or inter-species of genetic resources as well as those that actively utilize the local genetic resources by their own resources, have more chance to receive the Award. Recently, in the last event, two farmers received the Award, i.e. from the north part of Indonesia, Aceh Provinces, and from the central part of Indonesia, West Sulawesi provinces. 3 √ Genetic Diversity Fair Genetic diversity fair (G-Difa) was firstly held In 2018 in the Indonesia √ √ (G-Difa) same event with the National Congress on Genetic Resources. This activity aimed to promote crop diversity in Indonesia, particularly the local variety. Kind of crop selected to be contested in this event on 2018 was banana since this crop was available in every place in Indonesia. For the next event (2020), there will be selected another crop for the contest. Through this event, the superior local genetic resources were expected to be widelyknown by public, thus the region where the crop originated can gain economic benefits from the use and promotion of genetic resources. No Title of Short description of measure/practice Country Link Provision of Art. 9 addressed Type measure/practice 9.1 9.2a 9.2b 9.2c 9.3 egal L Other Technical Administrative 4 √ Indonesian Breeding Award for people and scientist who worked as a plant breeder Indonesia √ √ Awards at a government institution or private company. The award will be given on October 10, 2019 (the selection process will be started from July, 2019). Category 2. Financial contributions to support farmers conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA such as contributions to benefit-sharing funds - Category 3. Approaches to encourage income-generating activities to support farmers’ conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA 5 √ 1000 Seed Self- This program is designed based on the Ministry Agriculture Indonesia http://pangan.litbang.pertanian.go.i √ Reliance Village Regulation 207.1/HK.140/C/02/2016 on Technical Guideline d/files/seminar/2017/Model%20De Development of Seed Self-Reliance Village. This program sa%20Mandiri%20Benih%20PJK0 gives special attention to villages that are isolated or those 9022017.pdf are located in border areas and have problems for access to quality sources of seeds. The program begins in 2016 and to date has been implemented in more than 1,313 villages in Indonesia. This program facilitates the village to self- sufficiency in seed. Through this program, farmers have opportunity to produce and sell seed to other farmers. Most of the seed developed by the farmer was local variety and the seed was produce by breeder farmers. 6 √ Farmers’ Field School Farmers’ Field school on food sovereignty in the framework of Indonesia √ √ on Food Sovereignty in supporting food self-sufficiency integrated seed independent Supporting Food Self- village is intended as an effort