The Government of the Sultanate of Oman will host the Fifth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in Muscat from 24 to 28 September 2013 at the premises of...

Geneva, Switzerland – Ministers, experts and other participants at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) acknowledged the key role played by The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in the fight against hunger...

The Report on the First Round of the Project Cycle of the Benefit-sharing Fund, published by the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in February 2013, is now available online. It...

Routledge launches the book "Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons: Challenges in International Law and Governance", edited by Michael Halewood, Isabel López Noriega and Selim Louafi, as a part of series Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity. The book addresses how the...

The Secretariat of the International Treaty briefed twenty genebank managers of institutions that are signatories of agreements with the Governing Body under Article 15 of the International Treaty on relevant policy and legal matters on the occasion of a coordination...