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The Chief Agricultural Scientists of the G20 countries have favourably appraised DivSeek, an initiative that links large-scale sequencing and phenotyping data to publicly available germplasm accessions, following a presentation made by the Secretariat of the International Treaty on PGRFA at...
Tandem workshop for National Focal Points of the International Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol
02 June 2014
02 June 2014
The National Focal Points of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (Nagoya Protocol)...
Blue corn, red and black beans, avocados the size of an ostrich egg: Mesoamerica is the birthplace of a wide range of agricultural biodiversity – crops that are important not only to local cultures, cuisines and livelihoods, but globally for...
Indonesia Becomes the First Country to Donate Towards the Next Round of the Benefit-sharing Fund Projects
07 April 2014
07 April 2014
Indonesia has become the first developing country to make a voluntary financial contribution into the Benefit-Sharing Fund of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
The Indonesian contribution of USD 100,000 arrived on the heels of the...
Report of the training workshop for Asian countries on the Implementation of the International Treaty
17 January 2014
17 January 2014
The report of the training workshop Enhancing capacities to understand and implement the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture”, which was recently held in Tsukuba, Japan, is now available online. The workshop gathered 15 national focal...