Opening Ceremony of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Opening Remarks - Ms Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, Climate and Natural Resources
- H.E. Mr Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, India
- H.E. Teresa Bellanova, Minister for Agricultural Food and Forestry Policies, Italy
- Ms Marie Haga, Executive Director, Global Crop Diversity Trust
- Mr Michael Keller, Secretary General, International Seed Federation
- Mr François Desprez, Chairman, Groupement National Interprofessionnel des Semences et plants (GNIS)
- Ms Evalyne Adhiambo Okoth, Farmers’ Representative (from a Benefit-sharing Fund supported project)
- Keynote Address: Sir Robert Watson, Former Chair, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and former Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Ms Irene Hoffmann, Secretary, Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO
- Mr Kent Nnadozie, Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO
- Opening Ceremony Programme
- Opening Ceremony Photographs