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The International Treaty launches a website with one stop-access for plant genetic resources policy
18 January 2012
18 January 2012
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The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has launched a new website that offers a single one-stop-access point to plant genetic resources information by listing meeting documents, publications, projects, news, videos, funding information and technical support...
Briefing on policy and legal matters for genebank managers
21 November 2011
21 November 2011
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...
FAO says traditional crops key to facing climate change
14 November 2011
14 November 2011
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Rome – Traditional food crops and other plant varieties worldwide are in urgent need of protection from climate change and other environmental stresses, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, as it observed the tenth anniversary of the...
Ministers discuss in New York the connections of the Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty
21 September 2011
21 September 2011
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Rome/New York - Ministers of Agriculture, Environment and Foreign Affairs and well as senior intergovernmental officials from more than 30 countries will discuss tomorrow the close linkages between the Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources during...
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Bioversity International has just announced the Vavilov-Frankel Fellowships 2012 to carry out research, from 3 to 12 months, on a wide range of biophysical, economic and social themes related to the conservation and use of plant genetic resources in developing...