What Should Farmers’ Rights Look Like? The Possible Substance of a Right

Farmers’ Rights formally appeared in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) as a means of recognising past, present, future contributions farmers conserving, improving, making available plant genetic materials that are important food agriculture. Discussions have been underway under auspices ITPGRFA’s Governing Body with recent Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG-FR) collecting together views, experiences, best practices to produce an inventory options encouraging, guiding, promoting realisation Rights. While this is useful, article reports outcomes workshop applied different methodology. Our purpose was identify what could be should substance so policy drives implementation rather than AHTEG-FR’s retro-fitting existing practices, measures. The contribution develop set out list possible substantive foundation further consultations negotiations.