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A GIPB stakeholder
consultation process
has defined the
following five
longer-term specific
objectives, aiming
at the integrated
enhancement of
national plant
breeding capacity
building strategies:
Support for
policy
development on
plant breeding
and associated
scientific
capacity
building
strategy, to
help allocate
resources to
strengthen and
sustain
developing
countries’
capacity to use
plant genetic
resources for
food and
agriculture.
Provision of
education and
training in
plant breeding
and related
scientific
capacities
relevant to
utilization of
plant genetic
resources.
Facilitate
access to
technologies
in the form of
tools,
methodologies,
know how and
facilities for
finding genetic
solutions to
crop
constraints.
Facilitate
exchange,
from public and
private breeding
programmes,
of plant genetic
resources
that can enhance
the genetic and
adaptability
base of improved
cultivars in
developing
countries.
Sharing of
information
focused on plant
breeding
capacity
building to
deliver newly
available
knowledge to
national policy
makers and
breeders in
developing
country
programmes.
A Task Force 1
effort was organized
to formulate the
longer-term
priorities and
strategies, and
intended outputs and
outcomes for each of
the above objectives
of GIPB.
The resulting Final
Report of this Task
Force will guide
formulation of the
organizational and
implementation
framework of GIPB,
including definition
of the international
partnership
platform,
governance,
programme
implementation,
monitoring and
evaluation.
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The
longer-term
vision of
success of
the GIPB is
the
improvement
in crop
performance
and food
security
based on the
establishment
of enhanced
sustainable
national
plant
breeding
capacity.
Improved
cultivars
will be
produced and
adopted in
larger
numbers and
they will be
better
adapted to
climate
change and
to
protection
of the
environment
through
reduced use
of
pesticides
and more
efficient
use of
inorganic
and organic
fertilizer,
water and
energy.
Improved
stress
tolerant
cultivars
will
contribute
to reduced
consumer
price,
enhanced
human
health, and
increased
income and
employment.
In its
broadest
context, the
GIPB is
intended to
impact the
very essence
of what
constitutes
the
foundations
of global
food
security.
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