Non-monetary benefit sharing mechanisms within the projects funded by the Benefit Sharing Fund

This study presents and overview of the projects that have been funded by or proposed to the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPRFA). In particular, the study focusses on the technology transfer, capacity building and information exchange-related activities that are included in those projects. Through the analysis, we address the following issues:

• The geographic scope of projects, and the activities and partnerships within them;
• The types of technologies, capacities and information being generated and transferred;
• The actors involved in the co-development and transfer of technologies, capacities and information); and,
• Situations in which technology transfer, capacity building and information exchange are pursued or promoted together as part of a package and when they are pursued or promoted independently of each other