cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: General regime on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: In order to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol, the French law on Biodiversity (n°2016-1087) has modified of the Environmental Code – Article L. 412-3 and establish¬es rules on access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge and sharing of benefits arising from their use. In addition, the EU Regulation No 511/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 establishes compliance measures under the Nagoya Protocol. The Ministry of Ecology is the competent authority receiving any application for accession to traditional knowl¬edge associated with genetic resources. French law also applies directly to the five ‘overseas’ departments (Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Mayotte, La Reunion) and to Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon; and partially to some other territories, including New Caledonia and French Polynesia. Currently, processes are underway to establish procedures for consultation with ‘communities of inhabitants’ or ‘resident communities’, which can be any community of inhabitants who traditionally derive their livelihood from the natural environment and whose way of life is of interest for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Benefit-sharing can include measures for the preservation of traditional knowledge related to PGRFA of the communities concerned, with their prior informed consent.
title: Participatory plant breeding
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: In 1997, Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), in collaboration with researchers of Bangor University (UK), the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) and Bioversity International, implemented Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) to develop farmer-preferred new varieties while maintaining useful traits of local varieties. Core components of PPB include: (1) identification of community, crop and farmers’ needs; (2) selection of breeding material; (3) crossing selected parents; (4) selecting in segregating materials in farmers’ fields; (5) quality and quantitative assessments by farmers and breeders, including post-harvest traits; (6) development of local seed supply systems; and (7) registration/release from the national system. Key outcomes were the development of new rice and maize varieties using local varieties as breeding parents. Kachorwa Community Seed Banks produce around one ton of newly developed rice variety seeds every year, which are sold and distributed locally. The rice variety registration proposal has been submitted to the National Seed Board. The maize variety is already registered in the national system and a community-based seed producer group is producing and marketing seeds of the newly developed variety. Lessons learned include the importance of involving farmers in setting breeding goals and strengthening their institutions.
Transdisciplinary team-based cancer research: a model for training the next generation of cancer researchers
Creators: name: Siemann, Dietmar W.
name: Malorzo, Wendy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Purpose: Interdisciplinary team collaboration is a key element of discovery and advancement in oncology science and medicine. This fact is well-recognized by both laboratory and physician scientists and yet, most cancer research trainees are minimally exposed to and ill prepared in the collaboration skills required for them to be successful in the future. Similarly, near-peer mentoring, the benefits of which have been broadly published for precollegiate and undergraduate programs, is usually not a formal training component for doctoral and postdoctoral oncology trainees. At the University of Florida, the Team-based Interdisciplinary Cancer Research Training (TICaRT) Program seeks to address this unmet need by offering a unique opportunity for trainees to develop interdisciplinary skills in cancer research and gain collaborative expertise through team-based learning and near-peer mentoring. Conclusion: Active transdisciplinary research collaboration drives cancer discovery, knowledge, and treatment. Providing opportunities for trainees to participate in collaborative research experiences by incorporating team science and near-peer mentoring concepts as integral components of their training would greatly aid their preparation to become successful next-generation cancer researchers.
title: Simplified procedures for conservation and amateur varieties
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: In the Netherlands, variety testing and registration takes place under the responsibility of the Netherlands Inspection Service for Horticulture (Naktuinbouw). Following the relevant EU Directives 2008/62 (for agricultural crops) and 2009/145 (for vegetables), the application procedure for listing and marketing landraces, varieties naturally adapted to local or regional conditions, and varieties developed for growing under specific conditions with no intrinsic value for commercial crop production (‘conservation’ and ‘amateur’ varieties) differs from those for formal varieties. Conservation and amateur varieties do not have to comply with the general requirements for uniformity and stability (DUS criteria), or Value for Cultivation and Use (VCU). One reason is that the costs for a DUS and/or VCU test might be higher than the profit that can be made with seed marketing. Therefore, the Dutch Government decided to accept only varieties for registration that are marketed. If the annual turnover is expected to be less than €500, a variety does not need to be listed at all. For all other conservation and amateur varieties, a simplified testing system has been developed.
title: Exceptions to plant breeders’ rights and patent rights in the Netherlands
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: In the Netherlands, farmers have the right to save, use, exchange and sell of varieties not falling under the protection of plant breeders’ rights or patent rights. Though, these seeds need to comply with quality standards as defined in the national seed law, in accordance with the European Seed Marketing Directive. Regarding varieties protected by plant breeders’ rights or patent rights, the farm-saved seeds exemption applies. For plant varieties protected by national plant breeders’ rights, exemptions are regulated by the Dutch Seed Law (Zaaizaad- en plantgoedwet, 2005). For plant varieties protected by European plant breeders’ rights, exceptions are regulated by Regulation (EC) 2100/94 on Community plant variety rights. For plant varieties falling under a patent (Directive 98/44/EC on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions), the same provision applies. Based on these exemptions, farmers in the Netherlands can use farm-saved seeds of protected varieties of a number of agricultural crop species (e.g. cereals and potatoes) on their own farm against the payment of a remuneration to the holder of a plant breeders’ right, but are not allowed to market farm-saved seeds of protected varieties.
title: Landrace enhancement (‘grassroots breeding’)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: In 1998, Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), in cooperation with the Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC), Bioversity International and farmer groups, engaged in ‘grassroots breeding’ to promote conservation and use of local varieties by enhancing them for relevant traits and distributing them via formal and farmer-managed seed systems. Core components include: (1) identification of local crop diversity important for food security and/or income generation; (3) setting breeding goals based on in-depth discussion with communities; (3) collecting seed samples; (4) evaluation of collected samples; and (5) registration, seed production and distribution. Key outcomes include the development of a systematic method for landrace enhancement leading to the development of several improved varieties, e.g. of rice, millet and common beans. For some, variety release/registration proposals have been submitted to the National Seed Board (NSB) to enable formal distribution. In addition, community seed-producer groups and Community Seed Banks make the developed varieties constantly available to local farming communities. This process directly contributes to improving farmers' seed systems, promotes seed exchange and income-generation for farmers involved in seed production activities; varieties that were about to disappear are again cultivated by many farmers in large areas.
Green Urban (RE) Generation: A Research and Practice Methodology to Better Implement Green Urban Infrastructure Solutions
Creators: name: Laurenz, Jon
name: Belausteguigoitia, Jone
name: De La Fuente, Ander
name: Roehr, Daniel
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Green Urban Infrastructure Solutions (GUIS) are becoming more and more popular globally. Recent research reveals the environmental benefits derived from GUIS as well as their contribution to climate change adaptation. However, the urgent need for GUIS in order to meet the Paris Agreement, has not translated into an easy implementation thereof. This paper proposes a circular design methodology (CDM) where the combination of research and practice contributes to minimize both current skepticism and barriers when implementing GUIS. It includes a community engagement process to better understand their sensitivity and build consensus on GUIS. Additionally, GUIS are implemented, in a series of pilot projects and specific research is applied to comprehend the environmental benefits derived from these GUIS. The paper argues that GUIS represent a significant opportunity to respond to climate change risks as well as to achieve other urban benefits; however, in order to overcome existing barriers and skepticism, the proposed CDM reaches for more consensual urban solutions and drives uptake and implementation of GUIS, contributing to move from pilot project to common practice.
Development and characterization of EST-SSR markers for Pinus thunbergii
Creators: name: Mukasyaf, Aziz Akbar
name: Tamura, Miho
name: Yamaguchi, Rimi
name: Teshima, Kosuke
name: Watanabe, Atsushi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: In the present study, a set of ten Expressed Sequence Tag-Simple Sequence Repeats (EST-SSR) markers have been developed to contribute to the genetic studies of Pinus thunbergii. The number of alleles in the developed EST-SSR markers ranged from one to six. Observed heterozygosity was 0.000 to 0.707; the expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.000 to 0.720. Polymorphism information content (PIC) was ranged from 0.000 to 0.669. The mean of the probability of identity between two unrelated individuals (PI) and two siblings (PI-Sib) were 0.540 and 0.719, respectively. The EST-SSR markers developed in the present study, in combining with the previously developed markers, can help in understanding the genetic diversity and genetic structure of P. thunbergii populations.
title: Morphological characterization of native crop varieties using farmers’ descriptors
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: In 2001, in the frame of in situ conservation project, the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA), together with several governmental and non-governmental organizations, conducted documentation of the morphological characteristics of native varieties of maize and potatoes using ‘peasant descriptors’. The objective was to make an inventory of the most important crops grown by farmers, using their own descriptors and language, in order to understand the diversity and variability of the native crops and varieties. Technicians and experts interacted with farmers and visited their fields were visited at different growth stages. Descriptors used by farmers ae related to leaves, stems, flowers, tubers, grains, and fruits; and they were based on places, people, colours, animals, and shapes. As a key result, morphological characteristics of different varieties of maize and potato crops according to farmers’ descriptions or terminologies, are elaborated and documented. During documentation, it revealed that women farmers are the knowledge holders, or play an important role in cultivating crops, since they ae experts in describing the diversity of native varieties they grew in their fields.
Determination of intraspecific variation in seed weight, leaf functional traits, and sapling size of Betula ermanii using a common garden experiment
Creators: name: Paing, Aye Myat Myat
name: Chen, Shufen
name: Tsumura, Yoshihiko
name: Tomaru, Nobuhiro
name: Homma, Kousuke
name: Kadomatsu, Masahiko
name: Yoshida, Toshiya
name: Kobayashi, Hajime
name: Iio, Atsuhiro
name: Osumi, Katsuhiro
name: Taneda, Haruhiko
name: Hisamoto, Yoko
name: Goto, Susumu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Habitat loss of forest tree species distributed in cold temperate and alpine zones is a serious issue in the context of global warming. Considering that intraspecific variation is essential for adaptation to changing environments, intraspecific variation in seed weight, leaf traits, and sapling size of a sub-alpine broad-leaved tree species, Betula ermanii, was examined in this study using seeds collected from 11 populations across its natural distribution. Seeds were sown in seed beds, and containerized seedlings were grown in a greenhouse with a uniform environment (a common garden experiment). The effects of four climate variables, i.e. warmth index (WI), minimum temperature of the coldest month (TMC), summer precipitation (PRS), and maximum snow depth (MSD) were evaluated on seed weight, leaf functional traits, and sapling size using a generalized linear mixed model (GLMM). Positive latitudinal clines were detected for seed weight, whereas negative clines were detected for both specific leaf area and leaf nitrogen. These clines were not consistent with the general trends observed in previous studies. The reasons might be partly explained by geographic variation in climatic variables and nutrient availability. The findings obtained from this study should be useful for conservation of mountainous forest ecosystems in the age of climate change.
title: Building Food Sovereignty Based on Local Community Food Sources
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Income generation

description: The Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation, established in 1994,is one of the institutions that provides support for the conservation and preservation of Indonesia's biodiversity. The Foundation provides financial and technical support to civil society organization and local communities who are working on conservation, development and preservation of biodiversity. The Foundation believes that food security can be achieved through conserving and utilizing local biodiversity as a source of income to improve the economy of farming communities, as well as promoting the importance of crop diversification. One of the work they carried out in supporting agricultural development is building food sovereignty based on local community sources. It supported various activities in 2013 to 2019, such as with local communities and other entities.: (1) development and cultivation of sorghum plants on farmers' land, (2) increasing farmer capacity: cultivation-post-harvest-processing-consumption; entrepreneurship, economic balance, food nutrition, (3) promotion, education, advocacy, (4) support for post-harvest and processing tools and (5) synergy and networking with the local and national governments. The Foundation also promotes recognition of people who have contributed to conservation efforts, e.g. Maria Loretha, one of the sorghum conservationists.
Dignathodontidae Cook 1896
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Dignathodontidae

description: Family Dignathodontidae Cook, 1896   Remarks. This family is new to the fauna of Middle Asia and Turkmenistan.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2024, On some remarkable records of Chilopoda (Geophilomorpha, Lithobiomorpha) from Turkmenistan, pp. 317-322 in Ecologica Montenegrina 71 on page 318, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.34, http://zenodo.org/record/13247833
title: National IPR tools and measures supporting Article 9 of the ITPGRFA: geographical indications, trademarks and the new ‘swissness’ regulation
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: In Switzerland, several intellectual property right tools and measures are mutually supportive to Article 9 of the Treaty, including geographical indications, trademarks, as well as the new ‘swissness’ legislation. The Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) is the leading entity for geographical indications for agricultural products, and the Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) is responsible for trademarks and the ‘swissness’ legislation.  The system for registration of geographical indications has been in place since 1997 and is contained in the Federal Act on Agriculture.  The Trademark Protection Act dates from 1992 and the ‘swissness’ legislation is in place since 2017.The latter establishes rules in the Trademark Protection Act concerning the conditions under which a product or service may be labelled as being ‘Swiss’.  In particular, it strengthens the protection for using 'Made in Switzerland' and the Swiss Cross, and it contributes to preventing any wrongful use of the ‘Swiss made’ brand.  This set of measures ensures the long-term value of products developed from specific regional PGRFA, through fostering public awareness and recognition of farmers’ efforts to use and maintain these PGRFA, in the sense of Article 9 of the Treaty.
Non-catalytic and Catalytic Co-pyrolysis of Oil Palm Trunk and Polypropylene: Oil Composition and Formation Mechanism
Creators: name: Terry, Liza Melia Anak
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Pyrolysis oil from oil palm biomass can potentially be used as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels and the precursor for the synthesis of petrochemical products given its carbon-neutral property and low sulfur and nitrogen content. The addition of plastics and catalysts into the co-pyrolysis of oil palm biomass can improve the targeted hydrocarbon content, which is an important precursor for the synthesis of the petrochemical products (e.g., detergents, plastics, synthetic fibers, etc.) In this research work, the oil production from the pyrolysis of oil palm trunk (OPT), non-catalytic and catalytic co-pyrolysis of OPT and polypropylene (PP) were conducted from 500 to 700 C to evaluate the product yield and the changes in the oil composition.
title: Award for farmers who conserve genetic resources
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture
subject: AGROVOC: Local communities

description: Since 2014, every two years, the National Commission on Genetic Resources (NCGR-Komnas SDG) is giving awards to farmers in recognition of their important role and contributions to conserving local biodiversity. The farmers are being selected from the nomination of the Regional Commission on Genetic Resources (RCGR-Komda SDG) coming from every province. Those farmers who conserve the highest level of intra- or inter-specific diversity of genetic resources, as well as those that actively utilize local genetic resources, can qualify for receiving the Award. Usually, 2-3 farmers receive Award (certificate of recognition and some monetary benefits) every time the Congress takes place. Lessons learned include that awards stimulate farmers' enthusiasm for conservation activities, particularly for the cultivation of endangered or underutilized crops.
title: Awards for farmer-breeder who contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of PGRFA
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Conservation agriculture
subject: AGROVOC: Local communities

description: Since 2017, the Government of Indonesia, in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture, Brawijaya University, Malang, East Java, has created awards with the aim to encourage and acknowledge farmers’ participation in the conservation and use of local germplasm, including breeding activities. Two categories of awards are available: one for farmer-breeder and a second one for local government units where a high number of local varieties has been registered and utilized and/or developed. Farmers and local governments from all provinces of Indonesia qualify for nomination. As a result, farmers’ active participation in collecting, conserving and using germplasm for breeding activities has become more attractive for farmers and local governments alike.
CHET EL YURIDIK SHAXSLARINING XALQARO XUSUSIYATLARI (GAGA KONVENSIYASI)
Creators: name: Dilmurodova Malika Bekmurod qizi   TDTrU Iqtisodiyot fakulteti 3-kurs Yu-5 guruh talabasi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada yuridik shaxslarning xalqaro miqyosdagi huquqiy maqomi, ayniqsa, chet elda tashkil etilgan kompaniya va tashkilotlarning boshqa davlatlar tomonidan tan olinishi muammosi yoritilgan. Asosiy e’tibor 1956-yil 1-iyun kuni Gaa shahrida imzolangan “Chet el yuridik shaxslarining huquqiy maqomini tan olish to‘g‘risidagi Konvensiya”ga qaratilgan. Konvensiyada yuridik shaxs qayerda ro‘yxatdan o‘tgan bo‘lsa, u yerning qonunchiligiga asoslangan “inkorporatsiya” tamoyili asos qilib olingan. Garchi Konvensiya kuchga kirmagan bo‘lsa-da, uning tamoyillari xalqaro huquq amaliyotida qo‘llanmoqda. Maqolada turli davlatlarning (Germaniya, Angliya, Kanada, Braziliya, Hindiston, Singapur va boshqalar) bu boradagi yondashuvlari tahlil qilingan. Shuningdek, xalqaro iqtisodiy hamkorlik, xorijiy investitsiyalarni jalb qilish va transmilliy kompaniyalar faoliyatini huquqiy jihatdan muvofiqlashtirishda Konvensiyaning dolzarbligi ta’kidlangan.

Kalit so‘zlar: yuridik shaxs, xalqaro huquq, Gaaga Konvensiyasi, inkorporatsiya tamoyili, huquqiy maqom, xorijiy investitsiyalar, transmilliy kompaniyalar, xalqaro shartnomalar, huquqiy tan olish, davlatlararo hamkorlik, UNCITRAL, virtual kompaniyalar, huquqiy uyg‘unlik, milliy qonunchilik, yuridik shaxs erkinligi.
title: Seal of Origin programme
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Income generation

description: The Seal of Origin programme is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism and the National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) since 2012. The programme aims towards the creation, promotion, preservation, valorisation and protection of Chilean products characterized by having a strong link to the territory in which they were made, in order to recognize and reward the effort and work put into them. The core components of the programme include the use of industrial property tools such as al Geographical Indications, Denominations of Origin, Collective Marks or Certification Marks. These tools contribute to the valorisation of traditional and unique products of Chile, with the ultimate aim of promoting the entrepreneurship and productive development of local communities and the conservation of their traditions.  The use of industrial property tools; enhanced visibility of territories; protection of unique products; standardization of common practices; incentives for the development of business associations; and defense against unfair competition. To date, there are 32 protected products, 19 of them are food products, of which, 12 are related to plant genetic resources. These tools drive the preservation and stimulate certain forms of traditional production or manufacturing, safeguarding local food heritage, encourage unity in regional communities, and boosting the economic development of rural communities.
title: Competitive fund of the Ministry of Agriculture of Chile to support innovation in the agricultural, agrifood and forestry sector
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Funding

description: The Foundation for Agricultural Innovation (FIA) is an agency of Chile’s Ministry of Agriculture, whose mission is to foster a culture of innovation in the agricultural, agri-food and forestry sectors by promoting, articulating and supporting initiatives by people and organizations that contribute to improving the livelihoods of farmers in all regions of the country. Main areas of work include, for example, sustainable agriculture, climate change adaptation, organic farming, agroecology and healthy food. Initiatives working in such areas can apply for competitive funds based on announcements of FIA and in case of success receive both technical as well as financial support. Through its work, FIA generates and strengthens platforms for collaboration among various actors in the productive sector and facilitates research, teaching, extension, advisory and consulting work, both by public and private actors.
title: Geographical indication
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Income generation

description: Since 1992, the French National Institute of Origin and Quality (Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO)) has offered options for the protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) protecting the name of a product from a specific region and with a traditional production process. The objective is to identify an agricultural product, raw or processed, of which quality, reputation or other characteristics are linked to its geographical origin. Geographical Indications tend to lead to higher prices for farmers compared to similar products in the same food category and offer a marketing message about high value-added products. For this reason, farmers in rural areas are encouraged to initiate the administrative procedures to obtain the GI recognition; such labels may also result in more sustainable and responsible consumer choices. There is a long history of this approach in French legislation. Today, Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs and Title II of the French Intellectual Property Code (L721-1 to L.722-17) establish the rules for geographical indications. Well-known examples are ‘Coco de Paimpol’ (dry beans from Bretagne), ‘Lentille verte du Puy’ (green lentils from Auvergne) or ‘Espelette pepers’ from Basque Country.
title: SeedNL partnership
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Participatory approaches

description: Since 2018, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Plantum, the Dutch breeding and seed sector association have started to develop a partnership under the flag of ‘SeedNL’. The partnership will focus on increasing access to and use of quality seed as a basis and catalyst for improving agricultural productivity in developing countries and emerging economies. Besides, this the partnership will share knowledge and experience and work based on a joint agenda. SeedNL aims to sustainably contribute to reducing poverty, promoting inclusive green growth and resilience to climate change.
title: Public-private coordination, through national commissions or working groups (‘mesa de trabajo’) on relevant topics
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Decision making
subject: AGROVOC: Farmer participation

description: In order to facilitate articulation and coordination of relevant stakeholders for the development of the agricultural sector, national commissions or working groups (‘mesa de trabajo’) have been established in Chile for various topics to give advice to the Ministry of Agriculture, with the technical organization being provided by the Office of Agrarian Studies and Policies (Oficina de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias (ODEPA)). The objective is to jointly develop strategic agenda, solve problems and address challenges in the short, medium and long term. Representatives of the private sector related to the issue/topic in question, such as trade unions and farmer associations, as well as academia and technological institutes, representatives of the agroindustry and NGOs, participate in these commissions or working groups. Some of them have worked over several decades; for the realization of Farmers’ Rights, the working groups on quinoa and genetic resources are most relevant, besides the Ministry of Agriculture’s Civil Society Council.
Whole Energy Systems
Creators: name: Brown, Zak
name: Colechin, Mike
Publisher: name: UKERC
Year: 2025

description: A ‘whole systems’ approach to energy seeks to encompass all aspects of the energy system and its interdependencies by developing evidence to support scenario building and models that demonstrate how this system will evolve (UKRI, 2024). It provides insights into how changes to individual components can influence broader system behaviour (Energy Systems Catapult, 2024). This approach integrates engineering, economics, and physical, environmental, and social dimensions, viewing the energy system as dynamically complex. It broadly encompasses the technologies, physical infrastructure, institutions, policies, and practices within the UK that work together to deliver energy services to consumers. Prior to the UK Government’s Energy Review in 2004, the delivery of energy in the UK was largely managed via three separate systems - electricity, natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons. Although there were interactions in the margins of these three systems (not least the use of natural gas for electricity production), they were largely dedicated to separate end uses – an electricity system, a natural gas system for heat, and liquid hydrocarbons system for transport. The 2004 review, authored by the Cabinets Office’s Performance and Innovation Unit, was purposed with driving the transformative change required to modernise the UK’s energy system. It took a more holistic perspective, emphasising the need for a strategic and integrated approach to dealing with the UK’s energy challenges and, in doing so, laid the foundations for whole systems thinking within the energy sector.
Dignathodon microcephalus
Creators: name: Dyachkov, Yurii V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha
Dignathodontidae
Dignathodon
Dignathodon microcephalus

description: Dignathodon microcephalus (Lucas, 1846)
Figs 1–2.
 Material. 1 male (ZMMU Rc 8434), Turkmenistan, [Koped-Dag Mt. Range], Ai Dere [river valley, ca. N38°24', E56°44', Sunt- Hasardag Nature Reserve], mountain slope, under stones, 21.IV.[19]75, coll. unknown.
 Distribution. Mostly the Mediterranean region (Chipman et al. 2013; Dyachkov et al. 2022).
 Remarks. Genus Dignathodon and D. microcephalus are new to the fauna of both Turkmenistan and Middle Asia.
description: Published as part of Dyachkov, Yurii V., 2024, On some remarkable records of Chilopoda (Geophilomorpha, Lithobiomorpha) from Turkmenistan, pp. 317-322 in Ecologica Montenegrina 71 on page 318, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.34, http://zenodo.org/record/13247833
title: Immigrant Students in the Context of US School System Case Study of Russian-Speaking Immigrant Community in West Springfield, Massachusetts Based on “Bridge” Project Materials
Creators: name: Oleshko, Natalia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Russian
subject: Immigrants
subject: Youth
subject: Students
subject: Experiences US
subject: United States
subject: Russia
subject: Self-Identification
subject: Adaptive Strategies
subject: Clashes
subject: Cultural Values
subject: Academia
subject: Acculturation
subject: Socioeconomic
subject: Case Study
subject: Soviet Union
subject: Religion
subject: Refugees
subject: Religious Affiliation
subject: Heritage
subject: Adaptation
subject: Culture
subject: Massachusetts
subject: West Springfield
subject: MA
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Education
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

description: The purpose of this paper is to describe Russian-speaking immigrant school students’ experiences in the United States and to explore issues of self-identification and the adaptive strategies associated with schooling. The case may shed some light on complex problems of clashes in cultural values, how the might influence the choice of adaptive strategies and efforts to excel in academia. The study of the case will not be limited by school environment; rather it will explore the issues and problems of students’ acculturation in a broader context that will include community, family, socioeconomic, cultural and historical factors. The case study deals with religious refugees from the Soviet Union that is why the questions of religious affiliation and what role religion plays in the life of this particular community will permeate throughout the paper. The study will consider whether it is possible for immigrant youth to keep the religious heritage of their families and community and at the same time be successfully engaged in the process of adaptation to the US culture; what could be major constraints here.
CSACI position statement: transition recommendations on existing epinephrine autoinjectors
Creators: name: Li, Lucy D. X.
name: Abrams, Elissa M.
name: Lavine, Elana
name: Hildebrand, Kyla J.
name: Mack, Douglas P.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Epinephrine is the first line treatment for anaphylaxis, an acute potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. It is typically administered intramuscularly in the anterolateral thigh at a dose of 0.01 mg/kg of 1:1000 (1 mg/ml) solution to a maximum initial dose of 0.5 mg. Currently in Canada, epinephrine autoinjectors (EAI) are available in three doses, 0.15 mg, 0.30 mg, and 0.50 mg. There are currently no published studies comparing 0.3 mg and 0.5 mg EAIs in the paediatric or adult populations to compare clinical effectiveness. However, as weight increases above 30 kg, the percentage of the recommended 0.01 mg/kg epinephrine dose from an existing 0.3 mg EAI decreases resulting in potential underdosing. As such, The Canadian Society of Allergy and Immunology (CSACI) recommends that for those who weigh ≥ 45 kg, physicians could consider prescribing the 0.50 mg EAI based on shared decision making with patients.
Trauma Involving Violation of Trust, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Mental Health Help Seeking: A Journey to Social Inclusion for Adults Experiencing Chronic Homelessness in Australia
Creators: name: Taylor, Kathryn M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis includes three studies that drew on data collected for the Journey to Social Inclusion Phase 2 randomised controlled trial, which compared a novel homelessness intervention developed by Sacred Heart Mission with standard care. The research generates new knowledge on the traumatic experiences and mental health needs of adults with a history of chronic homelessness in Melbourne. The findings have implications for homelessness services, mental health services, and public policy. Future research is needed to develop treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders that are effective for people experiencing homelessness and for those who obtain housing.
Cosmological simulations with rare and frequent dark matter self-interactions
Creators: name: Fischer, Moritz S.
name: Brüggen, Marcus
name: Schmidt-Hoberg, Kai
name: Dolag, Klaus
name: Kahlhoefer, Felix
name: Ragagnin, Antonio
name: Robertson, Andrew
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: dark matter, density
scattering, small-angle
dark matter, halo
matter, power spectrum
dark matter, scattering
halo, density
satellite
wide-angle
correlation function
suppression
cosmological model

description: Dark matter (DM) with self-interactions is a promising solution for the small-scale problems of the standard cosmological model. Here we perform the first cosmological simulation of frequent DM self-interactions, corresponding to small-angle DM scatterings. The focus of our analysis lies in finding and understanding differences to the traditionally assumed rare DM (large-angle) self scatterings. For this purpose, we compute the distribution of DM densities, the matter power spectrum, the two-point correlation function and the halo and subhalo mass functions. Furthermore, we investigate the density profiles of the DM haloes and their shapes. We find that overall large-angle and small-angle scatterings behave fairly similarly with a few exceptions. In particular, the number of satellites is considerably suppressed for frequent compared to rare self-interactions with the same cross-section. Overall we observe that while differences between the two cases may be difficult to establish using a single measure, the degeneracy may be broken through a combination of multiple ones. For instance, the combination of satellite counts with halo density or shape profiles could allow discriminating between rare and frequent self-interactions. As a by-product of our analysis, we provide - for the first time - upper limits on the cross-section for frequent self-interactions.
title: Plant Breeders’ Rights legislation in the EU implementing the Treaty and the UPOV 1991 Convention in a mutually supportive manner
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: EU Regulation 2100/94 of 1994 sets out the EU plant variety protection system following the principles of the UPOV 1991 Convention. The objective is to provide a balanced IP framework for protecting plant varieties, which stimulates the creation of new varieties of plants for the benefit of farmers and the society at large. The core components of the system, which ensure the mutually supportive implementation of the Treaty and the UPOV Convention, are the scope of the right (article 13 of the EU Regulation) and the exceptions to the right (articles 14 and 15 of the EU Regulation). These exceptions ensure that farmers, especially smallholder farmers, can continue their practices of seed saving. One key outcome of the system is the number of varieties available for farmers on the EU market, adding up to around 40,000 varieties of agricultural and vegetable species, of which around 20,000 are protected; around 3,500 new varieties are released every year. All these varieties contribute to farmers’ choices; where the variety is not or no longer protected, farmers are free to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed of those varieties subject to national law.
title: Representation of farmers in the advisory boards of relevant institutions
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Decision making
subject: AGROVOC: Farmer participation

description: In the Netherlands, farmers and farmer organizations have multiple ways to participate and influence the development of policy and decision-making processes. As agriculture is heavily dependent on high quality of seeds and propagating material, farmers and farmer organizations play an important role in the development and implementation of policy. Farmers are represented in the advisory board of the national Centre for Genetic Resources (CGN), the advisory boards of the inspection services NAK (focusing on agricultural crops), Naktuinbouw (focusing on horticultural plants) and BKD (focusing on flower bulbs) as well as advisory boards of relevant research projects.
title: Exceptions to IP rights (the private and non-commercial use exception and the farm saved seed exception)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Legal Rights
subject: AGROVOC: Farmers' Rights

description: Plant breeder’s rights is a time-limited intellectual property right on plant varieties, limited through exceptions. The objective is to balance the interests of breeders and farmers and to create a system where both parties benefit. Acts done privately and for non-commercial purposes are exempted from the scope of the plant breeder’s right. Thus, subsistence farmers who carry out their normal practices can be covered by the private and non-commercial use exception. There is also an optional exception, the farm-saved seed exception or agricultural exception (Article 15(2) UPOV 1991 Convention). This exception, under certain conditions, allows farmers to use for propagating purposes, on their own holdings, the product of the harvest which they have obtained by planting, on their own holdings, the protected variety. According to UPOV Explanatory Note (UPOV/EXN/EXC/1), "small farmers" with small holdings might be permitted to use farm-saved seed to a different extent and with a different level of remuneration to breeders than "large farmers". In EU law, for example, small commercial farmers are exempted from the payment of remuneration on the use of farm-saved seed. Many UPOV members have implemented both the private and non-commercial use exception and the optional farm-saved seed exception in their national laws.
title: Promoting the implementation of Article 9 through international cooperation and Official Development Assistance (ODA) (I)
Creators: name: ITPGRFA Secretariat
Publisher: name: ITPGRFA
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: AGROVOC: Access and benefit sharing

description: The goal of the "Strengthening Agro-biodiversity in Southern Africa" project is to strengthen food security in Southern Africa by promoting seed diversity and agro-ecological practices through an inclusive, evidence-based dialogue with governments at regional and country levels by empowered farmer’s and farmer support organizations. The project will enable the use of research and information on seed and soil fertility policies, regulations and programmes by small-scale farmers and farmer support organizations in advocating for agrobiodiversity, food security and farmers’ rights. Furthermore, policies and programmes that protect and support farmer-managed seed systems are being developed and promoted so as to mitigate the environmental and social impacts of the industrial food system. The project started in 2016 and is implemented by the African Centre for Biodiversity.
Family Caregivers’ Experiences with Tele-Rehabilitation for Older Adults with Hip Fracture
Creators: name: Ariza-Vega, Patrocinio
name: Prieto-Moreno, Rafael
name: Castillo-Pérez, Herminia
name: Martínez-Ruiz, Virginia
name: Romero-Ayuso, Dulce
name: Ashe, Maureen C.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Background: There is a knowledge gap for implementing tele-rehabilitation (telerehab) after hip fracture. We recently conducted a clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02968589) to test a novel online family caregiver-supported rehabilitation program for older adults with hip fracture, called @ctivehip. In this qualitative substudy, our objective was to use semi-structured interviews to explore family caregivers experience with the telerehab program. Methods: Twenty-one family caregivers were interviewed between three and six months after the older adults completed @ctivehip. One occupational therapist with research and clinical experience, but not involved in the main trial, conducted and transcribed the interviews. We conducted a multi-step content analysis, and two authors completed one coding cycle and two recoding cycles. Results: Family caregivers who enrolled in @ctivehip were satisfied with the program, stated it was manageable to use, and perceived benefits for older adults’ functional recovery after hip fracture. They also suggested improvements for the program content, such as more variety with exercises, and increased monitoring by health professionals. Conclusions: This work extends existing literature and generates research hypotheses for future studies to test telerehab content and program implementation.
Effect of Peak Absolute Magnitude of Type Ia Supernovae and Sound Horizon Values on Hubble Tension using DESI results
Creators: name: Barua, Shubham
name: Desai, Shantanu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply data-motivated priors on the peak absolute magnitude of Type Ia supernovae ($M$) and the sound horizon at the drag epoch ($r_d$), to study how the $M-r_d$ degeneracy affects low redshift measurements of the Hubble constant, and then compare these estimates to the Planck estimated value of the Hubble constant. We use the data from Pantheon$+$, Cosmic Chronometers, and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI DR1) Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) results for this purpose. We reaffirm the fact that there is a degeneracy between $M$ and $r_d$, and modifying the $r_d$ values to reconcile the discrepancy in Hubble constant values also requires a change in the peak absolute magnitude $M$. For certain $M$ and $r_d$ priors, the discrepancy is found to reduce to be as low as (1.2-2) $σ$ when considering the spatially flat $Λ$CDM model. We also notice that for our datasets considered, the Gaussian prior combination of $M \in \mathcal{N} (-19.253,0.027)$ (obtained from SH0ES) and $r_d \in \mathcal{N} (147.05,0.3)$ Mpc (determined from Planck CMB measurements) is least favored as compared to other prior combinations for the $Λ$CDM model.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in EPJC