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
Genetic Enhancement of Maize (GEM) Project: example of a successful public‐private partnership for pre‐breeding (6 Mo)
Walter Trevisan, Consultant, Chair of the GEM project
Tomato genome project (6 Mo)
Gabino Sanchez Perez, Wageningen University
Towards challenging pre‐breeding and breeding approaches for the commodity CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) (2 Mo)
Philippe Ellul, CGIAR
Public‐private partnerships in plant‐breeding research within Germany (2 Mo)
Petra Jorasch, German Plant Breeders Association
Public‐private partnerships in plant‐breeding research within France (153 Ko)
Michel Renard, Inra
Session 2: Needs, gaps in pre‐breeding (and breeding) and what is done to meet them. What is the role of Public Private Partnerships?
General presentation on pre‐breeding in the plant breeding development chain, and the role of different partners in different situations (3 Mo)
Anke van den Hurk, Plantum
Presentation on public pre‐breeding project without private partners; link to growers/farmers (3 Mo)
Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton ‐ CGIAR
Presentation on project of private and public partnership; link to growers/farmers (5 Mo)
Jaime Prohens ‐ Polytechnic University of Valencia
Pre‐breeding from an SME perspective (414 Ko)
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?
What is in gene banks today and where should priorities lie for expanding the collections? Should collections focus on making available more diversity of newly collected accession or should they shift their focus and also include the conservation and maintenance of genetic stocks.
Hari Upadhyaya and Michael Abberton, CGIAR
Presentations on pre‐breeding from a gene bank where conservation, pre‐breeding and breeding go hand in hand; the example of banana breeding at Cirad.
Jean Pierre Horry, Cirad
Regional genetic resources ‐ SPGRC
Paul Munyenyembe, SADC Plant Genetic Resources Centre
Pre‐breeding and in situ conservation.
Béla Bartha, ProSpecieRara
Session 4: Funding to establish and maintain public‐private partnerships in pre‐breeding
Farmer supported research on lentil pre‐breeding: What has been achieved so far? How does the funding model work and is it sustainable?
Bert Vandenberg, University of Saskatchewan
Government (both research and development) funding for pre‐breeding: experiences and future directions. Involvement of private sector?
Jennifer Long / Nora Lapitan, USAID
Possible funding models for public‐private partnerships on pre‐breeding: The Syngenta Foundation’s perspective
Vivienne Anthony – Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
Session 5: IPR and protection of innovation/investments in breeding varieties
Open source approach to pre‐breeding results;
Erwin Goldman, University of Wisconsin
Breeders rights and the breeding exemption; the use in pre‐breeding;
Petra Jorasch, German Plant Breeders Association
The role of patents in plant breeding and in particular for pre‐breeding;
Brad Kurtz, DuPont Pioneer
Exchanging plant germplasm
Isabel Lopez, Michael Halewood, CGIAR
Need of IP rights in public pre‐breeding research
Michel Renard, Inra
IP Management
Selim Guvener, CGIAR
Published: 02/02/2015