145 Contracting Parties Rome, Italy, 02 December 2018 – Mongolia becomes the 145th member of the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture today. With an area of 1.5 million...

Global Information System of FAO International Treaty Tunis, Tunisia, 07 November 2018 – “This training workshop is very beneficial and will enable our national genebank to share skills and knowledge acquired here with genebanks in other Arab and...

Connecting the Local to the Global through the Benefit-Sharing Fund 26 October 2018, Rome, Italy – For the first time in its lifespan, the Benefit-sharing Fund of the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food...

Rome, Italy, 27 September 2018 - Genebank curators and researchers of the major Italian agricultural research institutions together with representatives of Civil Society’ Organizations involved in agrobiodiversity conservation and management met at FAO on 27 September 2018 to discuss implementation...

Each year on 16 October the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations celebrates the World Food Day to promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security...