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

In 1992, the first RIO conference established a framework for the conservation of biological diversity, which resulted the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). In its RIO+20 Call-to-Action, CGIAR urges for an endorsement of the...

Dr Shakeel Bhatti, Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation visited the Waite Campus on the 20th of March and presented a public seminar...

Farmers both here and around the world are worried about how issues like climate change, disease and even global food monopolies will affect how they farm, and whether they can continue to supply the world with food. Dr Shakeel Bhatti...

Dr Shakeel Bhatti, Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Treaty) at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation visited the Waite Campus on the 20th of March.