The European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA), Genetic Resources Section, in association with the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) has announced the organization of the event “Crop Diversification in a Changing World. Mobilizing the green...

The Plurinational State of Bolivia, in the exercise of its sovereign rights, has deposited the instrument of accession to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and will become a Contracting Party on 4 December...

Costa Rica will organize, with the technical support of the Joint Capacity Building Programme on Farmers’ Rights of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (International Treaty), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) and other...

12 September 2016.- As of today users visiting www.planttreaty.org will be redirected to the new website of the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty The new website presents...

Sharing the benefits of agricultural biodiversity can sometimes mean bringing back or introducing new crop varieties in diversity-poor regions to help farmers improve food security and cope with the effects of climate change. The International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources’ benefit-sharing...