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After disasters, emergency interventions mainly focus on saving lives and providing water, food and shelter. Protecting and rebuilding local seed reserves is often overlooked, even though traditional seeds are crucial for food and nutrition security. The good news is that...
Supporting projects in developing countries through the FAO International Treaty
ROME, Italy, 15 June 2020 – For the third consecutive year, the French seed sector, Groupement National Interprofessionnel des Semences et plants (
INCREASE – Intelligent Collections of Food Legumes Genetic Resources for European Agrofood Systems
11 June 2020
11 June 2020
Participatory research approach to characterise genetic resources in food legumes
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, 4 June 2020 – 28 international partners from 14 different countries are launching the new EU research project INCREASE with...
The crop diversity in CGIAR’s international genebanks continues to be in great demand. That’s music to the ears of genebank managers, who naturally want to see their carefully conserved collections put to good use. But it also places great pressure...
Over 1 Million Crops Accessible through the Global Information System of the International Treaty
03 June 2020
03 June 2020
Thanks to the collaboration of national and international genebanks and plant breeders, the Global Information System (GLIS) of the International Treaty on PGRFA now...