Treaties under Article XIV of the FAO Constitution

CONVENTIONS, AGREEMENTS AND TREATIES DEPOSITED WITH FAO

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
This Treaty provides in its Article 15 that the Contracting Parties: (i) recognize the importance of the ex situ collections of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture held by the International Agricultural Research Centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, and other International Institutions; and (ii) call upon the International Agricultural Research Centres to sign agreements with the Governing Body of the Treaty with regard to such ex situ collections.
At present, 15 agreements below have been signed.

Agreements concluded under Article 15 of the Treaty

Date	Title
16/10/2006	Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center
16/10/2006	Africa Rice Center
16/10/2006	Bioversity International *
16/10/2006	International Centre for Tropical Agriculture
16/10/2006	International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
16/10/2006	International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
16/10/2006	International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
16/10/2006	International Livestock Research Institute
16/10/2006	International Potato Center
16/10/2006	International Rice Research Institute
16/10/2006	World Agroforestry Centre
16/10/2006	International Coconut Genetic Resources Network
16/10/2006	International Coconut Genebank for the South Pacific
16/10/2006	Joint Division between FAO/AIEA on plant genetic resources