Years of deadlock between developed and developing nations on seed sharing have been broken with an agreement to set up a fund to help poor farmers preserve the world's biodiversity. The fund was agreed during a week-long meeting of the...

Members of a global treaty on plant genetic resources this month announced 11 new projects on biodiversity conservation in research institutions, and financed by a benefit-sharing fund whose sustainability is still in doubt. The group separately acted to better protect...

LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Rapid rises in temperatures worldwide may overwhelm farmers' efforts to keep up, say experts who want funds to breed new crops and freeze heat-resistant strains bred over past centuries. A Stanford University study to be published...

L'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), qui tient à jour la « carte de la faim », annonce un record de malnutrition dans le monde. Globalement, 15 % de la population mondiale ne mange pas à sa...

Cinq ans après son lancement, le traité international sur les ressources phytogénétiques pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture a réuni 120 pays à Tunis, du 1er au 5 juin, pour réfléchir à un partage équitable des semences. Objectif ? Lever 116 millions...