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 big implications for food security.   Read the article

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 collected as...

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 experts discuss the status and...

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, Descriptors for Crop Wild Relatives...

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 assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) not just to genebank...