Safeguarding of Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources and Legal Regulation of Access to It – the main topic of the Round Tables held on 5-6 December 2023 under the UNESCO Participation Programme for 2022-2023“Capacity Building for the Safeguarding of Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources and Legal Regulation of Access to It in the Republic of Belarus.”
The project is implemented by the National Coordination Centre on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, NAS of Belarus (ABS NCC), and the Centre for the Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Research, NAS of Belarus. The topics of Round Tables: Traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources – knowledge regarding […]
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The Department of Folkloristics and the Culture of Slavic Peoples and the Institute of Genetics and Cytology held a joint scientific and practical workshop “Wormwood, Bitter Grass: Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Youth Projects”
The event brought together the scientists of various profiles and representatives of creative professions who actively use traditional knowledge related to the plant kingdom. In the introductory speech, the workshop organizer, Head of the Department of Folkloristics and Culture of Slavic Peoples, Tatsiana Valodzina, explained the understanding of the term “traditional knowledge”, its role and […]
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ABS NCC took part in 5th International Scientific Conference “Genetics and Biotechnology of the 21st Century: Challenges, Achievements, and Prospects”
November 21-25, 2022 the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, NAS of Belarus, hosts the 5th International Scientific Conference “Genetics and Biotechnology of the 21st Century: Challenges, Achievements, and Prospects” marking the 135th Anniversary of an outstanding scientist ― botanist, geneticist, geographer, plant breeder, the founder of the world collection of cultivated plants, Academician Nikolai I. Vavilov.
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Employees of the National Coordination Centre on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing took part in the workshop on Biosafety
On October 21, 2022, the National Coordination Biosafety Centre held a workshop on the results of the preparation of the Fourth National Report to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
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UN Biodiversity Convention to host series of webinars prior to the resumed sessions of its two subsidiary
bodies and working group on post-2020 global biodiversity framework
WEBINAR. Issues Related to the Conservation of Polesskaya Horses
On June 27, 2021, an online meeting will be held dedicated to the issues related to the conservation of horses.
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ABS NCC held workshops on the Nagoya Protocol in Gorki and Mogilev
On 27-29 April 2021, ABS NCC staff members held workshops to inform about the legislative regulation on access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge for the professorial and teaching staff of the Educational Institution “Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University” and “Belarusian State of the Orders of the October Revolution and the Order of the Labour Red Banner Agricultural Academy.”
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