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THE ROME MANIFESTO ON AGROBIODIVERSITY
30 November 2021
30 November 2021
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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 by the Government of Italy...
Crop Trust and the Plant Treaty Launch Lifeline for Genebanks to Secure the Future of Crop Diversity
08 November 2021
08 November 2021
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- 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 of the International Treaty on...
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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 sets of characterization and evaluation descriptors for wild species...
First Svalbard seed deposit crowns Serbia's efforts to develop a dynamic conservation system for local cereal varieties
26 October 2021
26 October 2021
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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 accessions, including varieties...