The Governing Body at its Fourth Session invited Contracting Parties and other relevant organizations to, within the next twelve months, submit: Views, experiences and best practices on the implementation of Farmers’ Rights as set out in Article 9; and proposals...

I am pleased to inform you that a capacity building workshop on access and benefit-sharing will be held on 29-30 October 2011, in Montreal, Canada, back to back with the seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on...

The Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have the honor to inform that in partnership with the Government of Indonesia as the...

I have the honour to inform Contracting Parties of the recent decision taken by the Executive Board of the Global Crop Diversity Trust concerning the location of the headquarters of the Trust.

The Governing Body of the Treaty invites applications from entities and institutions based in the countries which are Contracting Parties to the Treaty, for grants within the framework of the priorities detailed in Appendix D.1, taking into account the eligibility...