Rome, Italy, October 2021– Crop collection holders in low- and middle-income countries can take advantage of a new funding opportunity to support the duplication and safeguarding of their collections in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Genebanks all...

Sharing & Taking Care of the Source of Our Food Florence, Italy, 07 July 2021 – Villa Bardini was the venue for the first Italian ‘Summer School’ dedicated entirely to the implementation of the International...

This white paper emerged from an independent expert consultation commissioned by the Secretariat of International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, with support from the Government of Italy. The purpose of the consultation was...

Rome, Italy, 25 June 2021 – Cryopreservation is the key to conserving a number of crops we rely on for our food and agriculture. While most of the world’s food plants, such as rice, maize and wheat, can...

25 May 2021, Rome - Conserving biodiversity is a central part of making peace with nature, and every person, sector and institution has a role to play, global leaders concurred at a United Nations (UN) virtual event today. "We are all part...