A historic meeting on Farmers’ Rights took place at the FAO headquarters in Rome this week, under the auspices of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. “The concept of Farmers’ Rights is based...

Rome, Italy, 05 September 2018 – A special event on “Innovative funding, big data and other trends in funding biodiversity in agriculture” kicked off the 10th meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Funding Strategy for the FAO International...

Dr. Kent Nnadozie has recently taken over as the Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (ITPGRFA) during GB7 at Kigali. Dr. Nnadozie has a long experience of working on legal and policy matters and intergovernmental processes, with...

A new tool to assist national-level policy actors to identify appropriate measures to implement the Multilateral System within their country has been published online. The tool has been designed under the Joint Capacity Building Programme with Bioversity International and is...

Rome, Italy  – Italy has made a contribution of over half-a-million US Dollars to the Benefit-sharing Fund of the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to support farmers in developing countries conserve and...