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...

   

En estos días estamos celebrando el quinto aniversario del histórico Acuerdo de París sobre el cambio climático. Cinco años después de su adopción, seguimos observando nuevos récords de temperaturas y cómo las zonas árticas se están despojando, cada...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, around 80 percent of seeds used by smallholder farmers come from seed systems managed by farmers. Local seeds have adapted over centuries to local growing conditions and are more tolerant to weather changes, climate shocks, pests and diseases. Additionally, local seeds provide...