Experts from 18 African countries met in Cape Town, South Africa, and discussed the way in which they can improve the documentation of plant genetic resources and information exchange through...

Before 2001, developing a new type of wheat or rice would mean making many individual requests to other countries asking for their seeds and other genetic material. Now, the International...

La protección de los derechos de los agricultores y la redistribución de los beneficios son retos pendientes en el sistema internacional que regula el intercambio de material genético agrícola La que...

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway, Feb 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cavernous bunker on a remote island above the Arctic Circle, where polar bears roam, holds the key to 12,000 years of...

Saving Seeds for the Future Svalbard, Norway, 26 February 2018 – Politicians, plant geneticists, scientists and international experts from around the world gathered at a massive Norwegian mountain today to celebrate...

First Visit to Famers’ Fields in Malawi Mzuzu, Malawi, 4 March 2018 – Hanne Maren Blafjelldal, Norway’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food joined FAO’s International Treaty Secretary, Kent Nnadozie, on...

Global Impact of Local Farmers  Lilongwe, Malawi, 8 March 2018 – “What the farmers in Malawi’s Mzuzu district are doing in their fields through this Benefit-sharing Fund project is important for...

Visiting Small Farmers Nairobi, Kenya & Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 9-13 April 2018 – The European Union has been partnering with the International Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund to support farmers in Africa and elsewhere...

San José, Costa Rica, 31 May 2018 – Thanks to the work of genebank managers and data curators, the International Treaty’s Global Information System (GLIS) is fast developing into a...

Dutch Plant Breeding Company Pays Into Benefit-sharing Fund Rome, Italy 27 June 2018 – Nunhems Netherlands b.v., currently a subsidiary company of Bayer (soon a subsidiary of BASF), specializing in vegetable...

Cooperation to include capacity-building on access and benefit-sharing related to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture Collaborative efforts aimed at contributing to economic development, innovation and research. 9 JULY 2018 –...

Recently, the International Treaty went into the field with a high-level representative of a donor country, Norway, to meet with smallholder farmers involved in an agricultural development project supported by the...

Rome, Italy  – Italy has made a contribution of over half-a-million US Dollars to the Benefit-sharing Fund of the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to...

A new tool to assist national-level policy actors to identify appropriate measures to implement the Multilateral System within their country has been published online. The tool has been designed under...

Dr. Kent Nnadozie has recently taken over as the Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (ITPGRFA) during GB7 at Kigali. Dr. Nnadozie has a long experience of...

Rome, Italy, 05 September 2018 – A special event on “Innovative funding, big data and other trends in funding biodiversity in agriculture” kicked off the 10th meeting of the Ad...

A historic meeting on Farmers’ Rights took place at the FAO headquarters in Rome this week, under the auspices of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and...

Argentina, 28 September 2018 – The Agriculture Ministers of the five nations comprising the ‘Southern Cone’ of Latin America – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay – signed a Ministerial...

Rome, Italy, 27 September 2018 - Genebank curators and researchers of the major Italian agricultural research institutions together with representatives of Civil Society’ Organizations involved in agrobiodiversity conservation and management...

Connecting the Local to the Global through the Benefit-Sharing Fund 26 October 2018, Rome, Italy – For the first time in its lifespan, the Benefit-sharing Fund of the FAO International Treaty...