1. IPM in Agriculture Research Projects
ICRAF’s policy on Intellectual Property exists to:
– Ensure that the intellectual property of others is respected.
– Ensure that products of ICRAF are managed in a beneficial way for ICRAFs
mission
Soil Fertility
– Developing sustainable land management (SLM) to reverse the current trend of land
degradation
– Integrating SLM techniques to improve livelihoods in small production systems
– IP/TK Policy in the proposal
– Contracts, agreements and MoUs in accordance to ICRAFs IP policy
– How to establish partnerships and transfers
– Central Check of all agreements
– Keeping track of activities
Improved Fruit Trees
– Understanding farmers’ tree cultivation decision making process
– Development of germplasm collection and conservation methodologies

2. – Traditional Knowledge collection
– Prior Informed Consent, Giving Back results
– Germplasm collection
– CDB, International Treaty
– Collaborative research / Data sharing
Marketing
– Fostering the understanding of the structure and functioning of agroforestry product
markets
– Adding economic value to agroforestry products
– Protecting new products?
– Geogr. Indications, Plant Breeders Rights
– Public Private Partnerships
– Humanitarian Use Licenses
– Compensation of Farmers
– Monetary or Non-monetary?
– Sharing of results, education, training
Capacity building
– In-depth training of farmers, NGOs
– Production of extension and didactic materials
– Work with CBO/NGO (how to ensure ICRAFs message and acknowledgement)
– Acknowledgement of ICRAF, Policies of partners
Communication
– Ensure PR of our program with many users of research results
– Maintain links with different media for wide use of our research results.
– Dissamination rights Press / Leaflets / Manuals
– Copyright, Acknowledgement
– Open access

3. – Easy distribution
– Defensive publishing
– Prevent patenting
In all of these phases…
– Are we identifying all of the public goods that are being produced
– Documentation is important so we learn from our experiences
Help comes from …
– IP focal points
– CAS (www.cas-ip.org)
– National Patent Office
– Lawyers
– Soil fertility
– MoUs
– TK Policy in the proposal
– Proper contracts
– Diversification to fruit tree improvement (germplasm improvement)
– TK collection (under what conditions/agreements?)
– Germplasm collection (cross-country? Improvement - PBR?)
– Germplasm Data gathering bu visiting scientists
– Tree management options
– Data Sharing (how to reduce reluctance)
– Publications (co-authorship of IP)
– Tree integration in ag. Systems (agroforestry component)
– Business plans
– Extension
– Data Sharing
– Marketing component
– Establishing new products (nut products)
– Protecting new products (Nut cracking machine)
– PPP (Unilever working with ICRAF)
– Compensation of Famers (what kinds of agreements)
– Capacity building and Extension
– How to get info to the farmer (ABS)
– Work with CBO/NGO (how to ensure ICRAFs message)
– Bringing back research results – Paul Queck project
– Communication
– Press / Leaflets / Manuals

4. – Publications / Presentations (acknowledgement and data sharing issue)
– Idea – Project Proposal
– What has to be integrated into a project proposal
– Building Partnerships with other organizations
– confidentiality
– Getting Input
– MTA’s, ITA’s
– Visiting scientists / students
– Collaborative research agreements
– Capturing TK
– Participatory, ….
– Publishing outcomes
– Open source,
– Sharing data
– …
– Giving back
– To local people and institutions
– Commercializing outcomes
– …
– Capacity building of local partners
– …