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The Access and Benefit Sharing Research Project

This project focuses on the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Africa and internationally, with emphasis on its provisions on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits derived from the utilization of these resources (ABS). It is a contribution to the multi-donor ABS Capacity Development Initiative for Africa aimed at building human and institutional capacity in African countries in this regard.

Linked to this project, the overall goal of FNI's participation is to improve the knowledge management and knowledge foundation related to working on ABS in Africa and internationally. The following five particular research needs will be addressed with the purpose of enabling effective implementation of ABS in Africa and at the international level:

ABS interfaces with other issue areas and challenges for policy coherence.

Analysis of ABS experiences in Africa.

Options for African impact on the negotiations of the international ABS regime and for substantive achievements regarding benefit sharing.

User country measures.

Analysis of the tools of the ABS initiative itself.

Much more information available on the ABS Research Project website

Project leader at FNI: Regine Andersen

Project period: 2009-2011

Publications

Articles & reports

Tvedt, Morten Walløe and Ole Kristian Fauchald, 'Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on ABS: A Hypothetical Case Study on Enforcing Benefit Sharing in Norway'. The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Vol 14, No 5, 2011, pp. 383-402.

Tvedt, Morten Walløe, A Report from the First Reflection Meeting on the Global Multilateral Benefit-Sharing Mechanism. FNI Report 10/2011. Lysaker, FNI, 2011, 18 p.

Samndong, Raymond Achu, ABS Capacity Development Initiative for Africa: The Case of Prunus Africana in Cameroon. FNI Report 11/2010. Lysaker, FNI, 2010, 28 p.

Tvedt, Morten Walløe and Olivier Rukundo, Functionality of an ABS Protocol. FNI Report 9/2010. Lysaker, FNI, 2010, 25 p.

Rosendal, G. Kristin, Access to and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources in Cameroon: Legal and Institutional Developments and Challenges. FNI Report 8/2010. Lysaker, FNI, 2010, 29 p.

Rosendal, G. Kristin, Analytical Framework for Analysing Experiences from Case Studies of ABS in Africa. FNI Report 7/2010. Lysaker, FNI, 2010, 11 p.

Andersen, Regine, Morten Walløe Tvedt, Ole Kristian Fauchald, Tone Winge, Kristin Rosendal and Peter Johan Schei, International Agreements and Processes Affecting an International Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity: Implications for its Scope and Possibilities of a Sectoral Approach. FNI Report 3/2010. Lysaker, FNI, 2010, 47 p.

Young, Tomme R. and Morten Walløe Tvedt, Balancing Building Blocks of a Functional ABS System. FNI Report 7/2009. Lysaker, FNI, 2009, 66 p.

Presentations

Tvedt, Morten Walløe, The concept 'Genetic Resources' &ABS and the Interfaces with other International Frameworks. Powerpoint presentation, Cali, Columbia, 22 March 2010.

Andersen, Regine, International Frameworks for Access and Benefit Sharing. Powerpoint presentation, Cape Town, South Africa, 25-29 January 2010.

Young, Tomme Rosanne and Morten Walløe Tvedt, Balancing Building Blocks of a Functional ABS System - a legal study of functionality issues in ABS. Powerpoint presentation, Montreal, Canada, 9 November 2009.

Tvedt, Morten Walløe, Forests, forest genetic resources and Intellectual Property Rights. Powerpoint presentation, Nairobi, Kenya, 24 June 2009.

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