Mathur Chairperson National Biodiversity Authority chairman@nba.nic.in; vbm.ddn@gmail.com Presented in the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2022 held on 3 March, 2022 Agrobiodiversity In India India is one of the World's 12 Vavilovian Centres of origin and diversification of cultivated plants, known as the "Hindustan Centre of origin of crop plants" (Vavilov, 1951). [...] FAO Save and Grow, 2011 FAO Save and Grow, 2011 The number of local varieties and breeds of domesticated plants and animals has decreased sharply AT RISK Proportion of the world’s EXTINCT mammal and UNKNOWN bird breeds by RISK NOT AT risk status RISK category Number of seed varieties on sale in 1983 (light green) as percentage of those on sale in 1903 (100%) Image: hhttttppss::////wwwwww..qquuoorr. [...] ‘a body to be called the National Biodiversity Authority’ DARE and DAC are Members of National Biodiversity Authority Four Chairpersons of NBA were from Agriculture Sector and three of them were from ICAR System itself. [...] [SECTION 40] Exchange of designated accessions of genetic resources of crops listed in Annex-1 of the ITPGRFA has been exempted from provisions of Sections 3 and 4 of the BD Act Agrobiodiversity in the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 [BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES] Section 41. [...] Every local body shall constitute a Biodiversity Management Committee within its area for the purpose of promoting conservation, sustainable use and documentation of biological diversity including preservation of habitats, conservation of land races, folk varieties and cultivars, domesticated stocks and breeds of animals and microorganisms and chronicling of knowledge relating to biological divers.
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