Acronyms and abbreviations

3PB Third Party Beneficiary (Plant Treaty)

ABS Access and Benefit-sharing

ACFS Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on the Funding Strategy

(Plant Treaty)

ACSU Ad Hoc Technical Committee on Sustainable Use of Plant

Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty)

AEGIS A European Genebank Integrated System

BSF Benefit-sharing Fund (Plant Treaty)

CBD Convention on Biological Diversity

CAPRi System Wide Programme on Property Rights and Collective

Action (CGIAR)

CePaCT Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees

CFS Committee on World Food Security (UN, FAO)

CG Centres or CGIAR

CGIAR Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research

CGRFA Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

(FAO)

CIMMYT International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CGIAR) CIP Centre International de la Pomme de Terre (CGIAR)

COP Conference of the Parties (CBD)

CPR Common-Pool Resource (theory of the commons)

CPGR Commission on Plant Genetic Resources (then CGRFA, FAO)

DHS Distinction, Homogeneity and Stability

DNA Desoxyribonucleic Acid

DOI Digital Object Identifier

DSI Digital Sequence Information

DUS Distinct Uniform and Stable criteria (UPOV)

EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Ministry of

Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply

ENB Earth Negotiation Bulletin of International Institute for

Sustainable Development

EPC European Patent Convention

EPO European Patent Office

ESA European Seed Association

ETC Group Action Group on Erosion, Technology and

Concentration (formerly RAFI)

EU European Union

FRs Farmers’ Right (Plant Treaty)

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (UN)

FWO Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen (Research

Foundation Flanders)

G-77 Group 77 - Loose coalition of developing nations in UN fora

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (WTO)

GB Governing Body (ITPGRFA)

GCDT Global Crop Diversity Trust

GEF Division of Global Environment Facility Coordination -

UNEP

GFAR Global Forum on Agricultural Research

GIs Geographical Indications

GLIS Global Information System (ITPGRFA)

GM Crops Genetically Modified crops

GMO Genetically Modified Organism

GPA Global Plan of Action (Voluntary instrument in CGRFA, FAO)

GPG Global Public Good

GRULAC Latin American and Caribbean Group (FAO)

GURT Genetic Use Restriction Technology

IAARD Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and

Development

IAASTD International Assessment of Agricultural Science and

Technology for Development (under sponsorship of the UN and the World Bank)

IAD Institutional Analysis and Development

IARC International Agricultural Research Centres (supported by

CGIAR)

IBPGR International Board for Plant genetic Resources (then IPGRI,

then Bioversity International)

IBP International Biological Programme

ICARDA International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (CGIAR)

IDLO International Development Law Organization

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN agency)

IGC Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property, Genetic

Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (WIPO)

INGO International Non-Governmental Organizations

INRA Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (France)

IP Intellectual Property

IPC International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty

(alliance of small-scale producers)

IPES-Food International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food

IPGRI International Plant Genetic Research Institute (the Bioversity

International, CGIAR)

IPR Intellectual Property Right

IR International Relations

IRD French Institute for Development Research

IRRI International Rice Research Institute (CGIAR)

ISF International Seed Federation (formerly ASSINSEL)

ITPGRFA International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and or the Treaty Agriculture (or the Plant Treaty)

IU International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources (FAO)

IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature

MDGs Millennium Development Goals

MFO Maison Franfaise d’Oxford

MLS Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing (Plant Treaty)

MTA Material Transfer Agreement

Nagoya Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the

Protocol Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the CBD

NGO Non-Governmental Organization

NSSL National Seed Storage Laboratory (Genebanks)

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OSSI Open Source Seed Initiative

PBR Plant Breeders’ Right

PGR Plant Genetic Resource

PGRFA Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

PIC Prior Informed Consent

PPB Participative Plant Breeding

PUD Product Under Development (Plant Treaty)

PVP (A) Plant Variety Protection (Act)

R&D Research & Development

RdS Red de Semillas (Resembrando e Intercambiando)

RSP Reseau Semences Paysannes

SDGs Sustainable Development Goals

SEARICE Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community

Empowerment

SkE Simalikalatone E

SMTA Standard Material Transfer Agreement (Plant Treaty)

SPC Pacific Community (scientific and technical organization in

the Pacific region 26 countries and territories)

SPC South Pacific Community

Community

TK Traditional Knowledge

TRIPS Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

(Agreement, WTO)

TWN Third World Network

UN United Nations

UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

UPOV International Union for the Protection of New Varieties

of Plant

USDA United States Department of Agriculture

VCU Value for Cultivation and Use

WG-MLS Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on the Multilateral System

WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization

WP-SU Work Programme on Sustainable Use

WTO World Trade Organization

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