Conservation and Sustainable Use of PGRFA and Farmers’ Rights 5-8 March 2019, Manila, Philippines – Representatives from Asia gathered together in Manila this week for a Regional Training Workshop on the conservation and sustainable...

More than 97 % of CGIAR’s Genebank Collections Registered in Global Information System More than 97% of the total worldwide collection of plant genetic resources held in the genebank collections of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research...

Saving Endangered Seeds Cartago, Costa Rica, 16 January 2019 – Secretary Kent Nnadozie of the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture visited a globally important collection of food plant diversity in Costa Rica...

Mr Kent Nnadozie, the Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) discusses the treaty, which has direct impacts on food and agriculture globally, in this two-part interview. Over the last decade, Mr Nnadozie has worked...

The ITPGRFA has a number of important global mechanisms available to its Contracting Parties. These include (i) the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing and (ii) the Global Information System, both of which are constantly growing and easily accessible to...