Home  Access & Benefit Sharing  The Project  Publications  Events  Links  Contact		The Access and Benefit Sharing Research Project of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute The ABS Research Project focuses on the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Africa, especially its provisions on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits derived from the utilization of these resources (ABS). The project is part of the Norwegian contribution to the multi-donor ABS Capacity Development Initiative for Africa, and will run from 2009 until 2011. The overall goal of FNI's participation is to improve the knowledge management and knowledge foundation related to work on ABS, in Africa and elsewhere. Work packages are focused around the following five research needs: 1. ABS interfaces with other issue areas and challenges for policy coherence 2. Analysis of ABS experiences in Africa 3. Options for African impact on ABS negotiations and for implementation 4. User-country measures 5. Analysis of the tools of the ABS initiative itself More about the project > Funding partners		Recent news and website additions Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on ABS: A Hypothetical Case Study on Enforcing Benefit Sharing in Norway New article by Morten Walløe Tvedt and Ole Kristian Fauchald (17.10.2011) A Report from the First Reflection Meeting on the Global Multilateral Benefit-Sharing Mechanism New report by Morten Walløe Tvedt (05.07.2011) ABS Capacity Development Initiative for Africa: The Case of Prunus Africana in Cameroon New report by Raymond Achu Samndong (01.09.2010) Analytical Framework for Analysing Experiences from Case Studies of ABS in Africa. New report by G. Kristin Rosendal (18.08.2010) Access to and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources in Cameroon: Legal and Institutional Developments and Challenges New report by G. Kristin Rosendal (18.08.2010)) Functionality of an ABS Protocol New report by Morten Walløe Tvedt and Olivier Rukundo (12.08.2010) The practical legal conditions for enforcing an ABS-claim under Norwegian Law Powerpoint presentation by Morten Walløe Tvedt (12.07.2010)
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