International workshop on the promotion of Public-Private Partnerships for Pre-Breeding - 2-4 February 2015
The role of pre-breeding is increasingly recognized as an essential step to increase genetic diversity and the diversity of cultivated material, and to transfer traits of importance in intermediate pre-bred material that can be utilized in variety and crop improvement.
This workshop, under the aegis of the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture aims to reinforce the public-private partnership around pre-breeding. It will focus on the importance of plant breeding engagement for long term breeding goals and improved resilience of our agricultural systems, the role of pre-breeding in the plant breeding programmes, the importance of public-private partnership for pre-breeding, the need for strategic investments into pre-breeding and breeding from both public and private stakeholders, the framework towards the establishment of a global platform for the development of crop specific public-private partnerships for pre-breeding and breeding, and the establishment of guidelines, methods, best practices, recommendations, standards for consortia agreements, collaboration and governance contracts, and funding models.
The workshop will be organized around:
- The current and future challenges requiring pre-breeding initiatives,
- The needs and gaps in pre-breeding and breeding,
- The role of genetic resources in pre-breeding,
- Intellectual property rights and protection of innovations in breeding of varieties
- Funding of public-private partnerships and governance
Session 1 ‐ Pre‐breeding and PPPs: definitions and functions
Walter Trevisan, Consultant, Chair of the GEM project
Gabino Sanchez Perez, Wageningen University
Philippe Ellul, CGIAR
Petra Jorasch, German Plant Breeders Association
Michel Renard, Inra
Morten Rasmussen, Nordgen
Session 2: Needs, gaps in pre‐breeding (and breeding) and what is done to meet them. What is the role of Public Private Partnerships?
Anke van den Hurk, Plantum
Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton ‐ CGIAR
Jaime Prohens ‐ Polytechnic University of Valencia
Orlando de Ponti, East West Seed
Session 3: What is the role of genetic resources in pre‐breeding? Do we have the required genetic variation? How should genetic stocks be conserved and made available?
Hari Upadhyaya and Michael Abberton, CGIAR
Jean Pierre Horry, Cirad
Paul Munyenyembe, SADC Plant Genetic Resources Centre
Béla Bartha, ProSpecieRara
Session 4: Funding to establish and maintain public‐private partnerships in pre‐breeding
Bert Vandenberg, University of Saskatchewan
Jennifer Long / Nora Lapitan, USAID
Vivienne Anthony – Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
Session 5: IPR and protection of innovation/investments in breeding varieties
Erwin Goldman, University of Wisconsin
Petra Jorasch, German Plant Breeders Association
Brad Kurtz, DuPont Pioneer
Isabel Lopez, Michael Halewood, CGIAR
Selim Guvener, CGIAR
Michel Renard, Inra
Publiée : 02/02/2015