Management of agricultural genetic resources : an institutional analysis of trends in the Netherlands

This report analyses the developments in the institutional environment of the statutory research tasks for conservation and use of agricultural genetic resources (WOT-GB ) in the Netherlands. Attention focuses on the period since 2002, when the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Food Quality (LNV) adopted its policy document, Sources of Existence, and likely future developments are described. A number of key stakeholders in the sector were interviewed in order to identify the relevant developments and their implications for the agreement on statutory research tasks betw... Mehr ...