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INTERNATIONAL TREATY HOLDS FIRST EXTRAORDINARY SESSION TO APPROVE INTERIM BUDGET
06/12/2021
Continuing Global Pandemic Necessitates Virtual Gathering
06 December 2021, Rome, Italy – Tomorrow marks the beginning of the First Special Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant...
THE ROME MANIFESTO ON AGROBIODIVERSITY
30/11/2021
Second International Agrobiodiversity Congress Focusses on “Eat-Grow-Save”
Rome, Italy, 19 November 2021 – “Eat, Grow, Save” were the key focus areas of discussion during the Second International Agrobiodiversity Congress (IAC-2), co-convened...
Crop Trust and the Plant Treaty Launch Lifeline for Genebanks to Secure the Future of Crop Diversity
08/11/2021
- Climate change, the global pandemic, pest and pathogen outbreaks, and political instability are posing ever-increasing threats to genebanks around the world- In response, the Crop Trust and the Secretariat...
Securing the future of African food culture: One phenotype at a time!
27/10/2021
Rome, Italy, 27 October 2021 – The FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have released two publications with key strategic...
First Svalbard seed deposit crowns Serbia's efforts to develop a dynamic conservation system for local cereal varieties
26/10/2021
Svalbard, Norway, October 2021 – The Benefit-sharing Fund project, GRAINEFIT, celebrated a unique milestone, with the first-ever deposit of Serbian crop varieties into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The 96...
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: SUPPORT FOR REGENERATION AND SAFETY DUPLICATION AT SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT
05/10/2021
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...
First Italian Summer School on International Treaty
22/07/2021
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...
Side event and white paper
05/07/2021
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...
SAVING HARD-TO-CONSERVE FOOD CROPS
25/06/2021
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...
Embedding biodiversity in all we do
02/06/2021
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...
Seed biodiversity: The life insurance of our food production
27/05/2021
Five countries protecting and preserving food biodiversity for resilient agri-food systems
Humans rely on a shockingly low number of plants for the majority of our daily calories. In fact, of the...
“Voices of Diversity” of the Benefit-sharing Fund
24/05/2021
Video messages from International Treaty Stakeholders
20 May 2021, Rome, Italy –The Secretariat of the InternationalTreaty has just released Voices of Diversity, in which farmers, breeders and decision-makers voice their...
INTERNATIONAL TREATY RELEASES INVENTORY ON FARMERS’ RIGHTS
21/05/2021
Unique Collection of Best Practices from Around the World
Rome, Italy, 4 May 2021 – The International Treaty has launched the “Inventory on Farmers’ Rights,” a unique collection of lessons learned...
Rediscovering ancient crop varieties
27/04/2021
Old and diverse crop varieties are packed full of nutrients and adapted to local environmental conditions. But since the 1900s, some 75% of plant genetic diversity has been lost with...
HUNDREDS OF LOCAL AFRICAN RICE VARIETIES DEPOSITED IN GLOBAL SEED VAULT
06/04/2021
Collected under Project Funded by International Treaty
Svalbard, Norway, March 2021 – Two hundred of the 324 types of rice varieties deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault last month were...
FRUIT & VEGETABLE DIVERSITY ATTRACTS GLOBAL ATTENTION
31/03/2021
Status & Challenges of Conservation, Exchange and Use
Rome, Italy, 16 February 2021 – Over 400 people from around the world got online at the same time to listen to international...
NEW DESCRIPTORS FOR CROP WILD RELATIVES CONSERVED IN SITU
22/03/2021
Available in four languages
Rome, Italy, 22 March 2021 – The International Treaty has released an updated list of passport descriptors for crop wild relatives conserved in situ. This publication,...
ICRISAT Breeding Programmes Adopt DOIs
04/01/2021
Vania Azevedo, Head of Genebank, ICRISAT
At its 8th Session in 2019, the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture encouraged CGIAR Centers to...
