Bringing Innovation to Farmers: New Varieties, New Opportunities (UPOV/SEM/GE/26)
October 21, 2026 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Meetings by Topic > Seminars & Symposia
UPOV/SEM/GE/25 >> UPOV/SEM/GE/26
How do new plant varieties reach farmers and growers? The systems that deliver planting materials are diverse and complex.
Join this UPOV Seminar to hear from UPOV members, farmers and other stakeholders how plant variety protection operates along other policy instruments to achieve food security, sustainability and resilience. Real examples from around the world will provide the basis for a conversation on collaborative approaches to address farmers’ needs.
Disclaimer
The views expressed in the presentations of the Seminar are those of the speakers and/or participants and are not necessarily those of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).
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Meeting Documents
| Code | Title(s) | File(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/1 | Seminar Program | ||
Biographies
| Code | Title(s) | File(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/1 | Mr. Chikelu Mba, Deputy Director, Plant Production and Protection Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/2 | Mr. Martin Ekvad, Director of Legal Affairs, UPOV | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/3 | Ms. Regine Andersen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/4 | Ms. Mary Mgonja, Plant breeder and Seed systems. Founder of Namburi Seed Company in the United Republic of Tanzania | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/5 | Ms. Yeny Aniñir Campos, Raspberry Farmer, Araucanía region, Chile | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/6 | Mr. Manuel Tornel Martínez, Coordinator of the table grape breeding team at the Murcia Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research and Development (IMIDA) and Researcher at the Institute for Table Grape Research and Technology (ITUM), Spain | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/7 | Mr. Alexsandro Macedo Mastropaulo, Strategic Projects Brazil and Paraguay, Corteva, Brazil | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/8 | Ms. Shalmali Guttal, Chair-Rapporteur, UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/9 | Ms. Cynthia Motsi, Senior Manager for intellectual property and commercialization, Agricultural Research Council (ARC), South Africa | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/28/BIO/10 | Ms. Elna de Bruyn, Scientist (Production), Directorate: Genetic Resources, Division Plant Breeders' Rights, Department of Agriculture, South Africa | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/11 | Mr. Charles Russell, Chief Executive of Mātai Pacific Iwi Collective, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/12 | Ms. Lorelei Garagancea, Legal Director – IP & Genetic Resources, International Seed Federation (ISF) | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/13 | Mr. Anthony Parker, Commissioner, Plant Breeders' Rights Office, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Canada | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/14 | Mr. Okelola Folarin, Registrar, Nigerian Plant Variety Protection Office, National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC), Nigeria | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/15 | Mr. Niels Louwaars, Fellow, Wageningen University and SeedNL, Kingdom of the Netherlands | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/16 | Ms. Joyce Eligi Mosile, Principal Agricultural Officer, Plant Breeders' Rights Office, Ministry of Agriculture, United Republic of Tanzania | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/17 | Mr. Saybandith Sayavongkhamdy, Deputy Director General, Department of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Lao People's Democratic Republic | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/18 | Mr. Pieter Verhelst, World Farmers’ Organization (WFO) Board Member (Boerenbond, Belgium) | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/BIO/19 | Ms. Grace Issahaque, Registrar-General, Ministry of Justice, Ghana | ||
Presentations
| Code | Title(s) | File(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/1 | Improved crop varieties: an imperative for agrifood systems transformation | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/2 | How the UPOV Convention contributes to providing farmers’ access to new plant varieties3 | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/3 | Understanding farmer-managed seed systems: regulatory and non-regulatory Influences | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/4 | Harnessing the power of plant variety protection in reaching farmers with new varieties and opportunities to improve their livelihoods in the United Republic of Tanzania | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/5 | My experience with protected varieties: from subsistence farming to small-scale raspberry grower | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/6 | ITUM's signature flavor: Spanish growers pioneer their own table grape varieties | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/7 | The impact of improved seeds on farmers' quality of life | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/8 | The Right to Seeds: Custodianship, Enclosure and Resistance | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/9 | How the ARC commercializes its cultivars to smallholder farmers: a case of citrus | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/10 | He Kai Kei Aku Ringa - Prosperity by our own hands: new varieties, new opportunities for Māori growers in Aotearoa, New Zealand | ||
| UPOV/SEM/GE/26/PPT/11 | How PBRs coexist with other seed systems to the benefit of farmers | ||