ProjectObjective
The objective of the project is to strengthen technical capacity in scientific knowledge generation in communications and biosafety decision-making for Compliance with the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
Each country will be represented by a National Coordination and by competent entities with specialization, knowledge and complementary experience. Since the project would not only use but also increase the existing capacity in each country, partners agree in that a multi country approach is the most effective one allowing a faster impact and being more sustainable than alternative methods.
National coordinating agencies harbor excellence centers in areas directly related to bio safety; for example, on environment Embrapa Meio Ambiente from la Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - EMBRAPA; on biology and agro biodiversity, the CIBCM of Costa Rica University, and on agriculture and agro biodiversity, the IBT of the Agrarian University La Molina, Peru and the Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria CORPOICA, Colombia.
Participating countries
The four participating countries in this project, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru have several characteristics in common:
- High levels of biodiversity of important crops and their wild relatives;
- Geographical distribution of wild relatives / weeds of economically important crops;
- Development and implementation of active projects with GEF financing and World Bank projects in agriculture and rural development;
- A potential and strategic future role they could carry out in bio safety management in their respective sub regions.
- The four countries had already developed and implemented bio safety legal frameworks previous to the Protocol of Cartagena. Furthermore, all of them have ratified the CBD and the PCB.
