Rio de Janeiro - The European Union is contributing €5 million euros (6.5 million dollars) towards the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO announced today, at a high-level ministerial meeting on...

Former Secretary of the FAO’s Commission on Genetic Resources and of the Interim Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources, Prof. José Esquinas-Alcázar was awarded a prize by Her Majesty Queen Sofía of Spain for his personal trajectory...

The global gene pool of the International Treaty received this week 351 new wheat accessions that have been evaluated during the life of a Benefit-sharing Fund project implemented in Morocco, as announced by the National Agriculture Research Institute of this...

As part of the activities of the Inter-regional Cooperation Network of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR), a joint workshop between ECPGR and the Near East and North Africa Plant Genetic Resources Network (NENA PGRN) was organized...

You can watch online some selected video interventions and statements made by the participants and guests of the 10th anniversary event that took place in Rome : Director-General of FAO , Achim Steiner (Executive Director of UNEP), Francis Gurry (Director-General...