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First Visit to Famers’ Fields in Malawi
Mzuzu, Malawi, 4 March 2018 – Hanne Maren Blafjelldal, Norway’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food joined FAO’s International Treaty Secretary, Kent Nnadozie, on a very special field mission in Africa...
10th Anniversary of the Global Seed Vault
28 February 2018
28 February 2018
Saving Seeds for the Future
Svalbard, Norway, 26 February 2018 – Politicians, plant geneticists, scientists and international experts from around the world gathered at a massive Norwegian mountain today to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the global seed...
LONGYEARBYEN, Norway, Feb 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cavernous bunker on a remote island above the Arctic Circle, where polar bears roam, holds the key to 12,000 years of agriculture but also to food supplies for future generations with...
Los dividendos por compartir semillas se hacen esperar
26 February 2018
26 February 2018
La protección de los derechos de los agricultores y la redistribución de los beneficios son retos pendientes en el sistema internacional que regula el intercambio de material genético agrícola
La que probablemente sea la copia de seguridad más importante del mundo...
An insurance policy for the world’s crops
22 February 2018
22 February 2018
Before 2001, developing a new type of wheat or rice would mean making many individual requests to other countries asking for their seeds and other genetic material. Now, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture...