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International Treaty & Global Biodiversity Information Facility Sign Letter of Intent
11 May 2023, Rome, Italy – The Executive Director of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)[1], Mr Joe Miller, and the...
28 Projects Approved for Funding
12 May 2023
12 May 2023

USD 11 Million to be Invested in the Fifth Cycle of Benefit-sharing Fund Projects
Rome, 9 May 2023 – Twenty-eight projects have been approved for Benefit-sharing Fund support by the...
Available Now: New Version of the Toolbox for Sustainable use of PGRFA and its User Guide
09 May 2023
09 May 2023

The new version of the Toolbox for Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) is now available on the Treaty website and the Global Information System (GLIS) portal. The User...

Unique plant genetic resources have been transported over a thousand kilometres from Kharkiv to the west of Ukraine
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with support from the European Union (EU), moved a collection...

Rome, Italy, 29 March 2023 – The International Treaty has released a new tool to facilitate the documentation and global exchange of information on crop wild relatives’ (CWRs’) genetic resources conserved in situ. The...