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Acknowledgement
The manual and the website was commissioned and sponsored by SAEFL (Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape,
Office 2010 Professional, now Federal Office of the Environment (FOEN)). We would like to thank its representatives and the representatives of other government agencies for their cooperation. It is part of Switzerland's commitment to the CBD to promote voluntary measures and contribute to the establishment of a transparent ABS procedure.
We received substantial input in the development of the manual from the Swiss Biodiversity Forum and the Forum on Genetic Research (both Swiss Academy of Sciences), and from the Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries of the Council of the Swiss Scientific Academies.
The ad-hoc Consultative Group on Access and Benefit Sharing assisted in the compilation of the manual by critically evaluating the various drafts from the point of view of the academic disciplines involved in the ABS system. We thank all members of the group for their willingness to accompany the project and for their valuable input.
The compilation of the manual was preceded by a survey of members of the Swiss academic community on their experiences with research on genetic resources accessed in other countries. The case studies were selected from this information pool and edited in cooperation with the involved researchers. The final version of the manual was subject to a broad evaluation process within academic and science policy circles. We are grateful to all contributors for their comments and suggestions which helped us to clarify the implications of the ABS system for academic research and, hence also, to enhance the ease of the use of this manual.
The manual was evaluated on the occasion of workshops in Abidjan,
Office 2007 Professional, Ivory Coast and Oaxaca, Mexico. We thank the participants for their valuable input from the point of view of the stakeholders in providing countries.
Links
→ Swiss Biodiversity Forum
→ Swiss Forum on Genetic Research
→ Ad-hoc Consultative Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing
Photo sources
Swiss Academy of Sciences
BioPix,
Windows 7 Pro, www.biopix.dk
Botanical Image Database
University of Basel,
Office 2007 Professional, Switzerland
pages.unibas.ch/botimage
Swiss Tropical Institute
Wildlife Photo Report
Monika und Hans D. Dossenbach,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, CH-Siblingen
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