Highlights and images for 27 November 2025

Peru’s rich crop diversity is the outcome of the traditional knowledge and agricultural practices of Indigenous Peoples and farmer communities and their respectful relationship with Mother Earth, Vladimir Cuno Salcedo, Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation of Peru, underscored. Addressing the afternoon plenary, he highlighted farmers’ contribution to agricultural biodiversity and called for solidarity and efficiency in deliberations, for a shared sustainable future.

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Contact group negotiations on farmers’ rights continued to illustrate Parties’ diverse visions on how to translate the rhetorical recognition of farmers’ contribution to agricultural biodiversity and food security into policy making and concrete actions on the ground for the implementation of farmers’ rights, as recognized in Article 9 of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).

During discussions on the draft strategy on how the use of the “Options for encouraging, guiding, and promoting the realization of farmers’ rights” can be promoted, a passionate debate followed a proposal to ensure that legal frameworks, measures, and actions would not contradict the 1991 Act of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV 1991). Many regions opposed, arguing that the strategy’s measures are voluntary, and not all ITPGRFA Parties are UPOV members. The issue remained unresolved, among a series of others.

The contact group on conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture continued negotiations on a draft resolution, focusing on a list of requests to the Secretariat for intersessional work.

In plenary sessions, delegates engaged in text-based negotiations on draft resolutions on, among other issues:  

• compliance; 
• contribution of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) to the ITPGRFA; 
• cooperation with the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and with the Global Crop Diversity Trust; 
• the Treaty’s Global Information System;  
• cooperation with the Convention on Biological Diversity; and
• implementation and operations of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing.