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GRANT OPPORTUNITY: SUPPORT FOR REGENERATION AND SAFETY DUPLICATION AT SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT
05 October 2021
05 October 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 Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Genebanks all...
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 implementation of the International...
Side event and white paper
05 July 2021
05 July 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 Italy. The purpose of the consultation was...
SAVING HARD-TO-CONSERVE FOOD CROPS
25 June 2021
25 June 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 plants, such as rice, maize and wheat, can...
Embedding biodiversity in all we do
02 June 2021
02 June 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 a United Nations (UN) virtual event today.
"We are all part...