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Costa Rica organizes the First National Meeting on Farmers’ Rights
15 September 2016
15 September 2016
Costa Rica will organize, with the technical support of the Joint Capacity Building Programme on Farmers’ Rights of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (International Treaty), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) and other...
New Treaty’s website launched
13 September 2016
13 September 2016
12 September 2016.- As of today users visiting www.planttreaty.org will be redirected to the new website of the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty
The new website presents...
Spreading the benefits of agricultural biodiversity in a drought-hit region of northern India.
05 September 2016
05 September 2016
Sharing the benefits of agricultural biodiversity can sometimes mean bringing back or introducing new crop varieties in diversity-poor regions to help farmers improve food security and cope with the effects of climate change.
The International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources’ benefit-sharing...
The Darwin Initiative has opened the call for project proposals under its Round 23 and invited organizations to submit project proposal on biodiversity conservation in developing countries by 10 August 2016. The Darwin Initiative is a grants scheme of the...
Dr. Shakeel Bhatti, Secretary of the International Treaty on PGRFA
Agriculture is not always the first thing people think of when they consider protecting biodiversity. Farming is too often viewed as the enemy of wildlife and nature.
But of all the plant...