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Seed Links
International Organizations
Canadian Seed
Trade Association
Through the collective efforts of its
membership, the CSTA fosters an environment conducive to
researching, developing, distributing, and trading seed and
associated technologies; with the goal of bettering the choices and
successes of its members’ customers.
Convention on Biological
Diversity, United Nations Environment Programme
The
Convention on Biological Diversity is a pact among the vast majority
of the world's governments designed to maintain the world's
ecological underpinnings in the face of economic development. It
establishes three main goals: the conservation of biological
diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and
equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of genetic resources.
Food and Agriculture Organization, Seed and Plant
Genetic Resources Service
The FAO’s Seed and Plant
Genetic Resources Service manages programs for seed policies, seed
improvement, seed production, seed security and germplasm
exchange.
International Plant Protection Convention, FAO Plant
Protection Service
This convention maintains and
increases international cooperation in controlling pests and
diseases of plants and plant products as well as prevents their
introduction and spread across national boundaries.
International Society for Seed Science
The
ISSS is a membership organization that strives to advance education
and research for the public benefit in the scientific study of
seeds.
International Seed Trade Federation (FIS)
The FIS is a non-profit group of national associations
and individual seed companies. With members from about 70 developed
and developing countries of all continents, it represents the
mainstream of world seed trade and serves as an international forum
where general seed industry issues are discussed.
International Seed
Testing Association
The primary purpose of the ISTA is to
develop, adopt and publish standard procedures for sampling and
testing seeds and to promote uniform application of these procedures
for evaluation of seeds moving in international trade. ISTA’s
secondary purposes include actively promoting research in all areas
of seed science and technology and encouraging variety
certification.
International Union for the Protection of New
Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
UPOV is an intergovernmental
organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. Its objective is the
protection of new varieties of plants by an intellectual property
rights.
Mexican Seed Trade Association (in
Spanish)
ASTA’s and CSTA’s counterpart in Mexico.
North American Plant
Protection Organization
NAPPO, a Regional Plant
Protection Organization of the International Plant Protection
Convention, coordinates the efforts among Canada, the United States
and Mexico to protect their plant resources from the entry,
establishment and spread of regulated plant pests, while
facilitating intra/interregional trade.
Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development
Seed Schemes
The OECD groups 30 member countries in an
organization that provides governments a setting in which to
discuss, develop and perfect economic and social policy. The OECD
Schemes for the Varietal Certification of Seed Moving in
International Trade addresses global seed trade issues.
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