Holding activities to build capability and improve awareness
The ABS project has been widely promoted throughout Guangxi, with about 50 promotional activities, 20 training sessions and related meetings, and more than 10,000 participants online and offline, to help with Guangxi ABS legislation and benefit-sharing.
These activities not only enhance the capacity building of relevant personnel, but also raise public awareness of biodiversity conservation and benefit-sharing.
Public awareness of - and public support for - program activities ensures success.
Promote benefit-sharing between enterprises and local communities/residents
Guangxi negotiated and implemented agreements on access to genetic resources and related traditional knowledge and benefit-sharing of Siraitia grosvenorii and Camellia nitidissima in Guilin and Fangchenggang, promoting the signing of more than 10 benefit-sharing agreements between enterprises and farmers in demonstration areas through measures such as value-insured recovery, benefit sharing, technology training, and enhanced resource protection. From 2019 to 2021, the campaign benefited more than 5,000 farmers in the major producing areas of Siraitia grosvenorii and Camellia nitidissima, helping nearly 300 poor households escape poverty.
From 2020 to 2021, the demonstration enterprise Guilin Monk Fruit Siraitia Grosvenorii Biotechnology Inc. has increased the returns from purchasing and recovering Siraitia grosvenorii by 50% year-on-year.
It is necessary to negotiate and implement access and benefit-sharing agreements for genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge.
Protect biogenetic resources and related traditional knowledge
The protection for wild genetic resources has been formalized, and 20 protection sites for chrysantha have been constructed; guidance is provided for demonstration enterprises to expand the nursery of Siraitia grosvenorii and Camellia nitidissima, which cover an area of 2,000 square metres and 500 square metres respectively.
The project helped to increase the area allocated for growing seedlings of Siraitia grosvenorii and Camellia nitidissima genetic resources, and planted Camellia nitidissima in the wild.
Reducing the utilization of wild resources is key to project success.
