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| Name | Best Practices and Ethical Standards in Participatory Plant Breeding |
| Description | Simpson, B. 2000. Best Practices and Ethical Standards in Participatory Plant Breeding: Background synthesis of relevant existing codes. Prepared for the Systemwide Program on Participatory Research (PRGA).Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB), as with other forms of participatory practice, is a composite of interrelated and, at their best, reinforcing elements, each with their own concerns. Among these, much attention has recently been focused on the issues of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and certain technical aspects. In the interest of improving the state-of-the-art in PPB, however, neither IPR nor any other single issue, by themselves, capture the full breadth and depth of PPB practice. To help explore this broader range of issues, a working group was established from among the PPB List members to identify a set of PPB ‘Best Practices,’ focusing particularly on the ethics of establishing honest, transparent, relationships between researchers, farmers and farming communities. To support this group, and to complement other papers under preparation for the PRGA on technical and legal dimensions of PPB, this paper was commissioned with the objectives of:# Searching out background documents on ‘best practice codes,’ or ‘ethical codes,’ of a) organizations with mandates similar to that of the PRGA and b) organizations that specifically work with farming communities and plant material.# Writing a short synthetic document signaling a) trends in ‘best practice’ elements which appear across documents (standard, baseline practices), and b) trends and unique best practice elements which may have specific relevance to "Participatory Plant Breeding". |
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