I am pleased to share with you the provisional calendar of the meetings of subsidiary bodies and intersessional processes of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture for the period 2020-21.

The purpose of this notification is to bring to your attention the zero draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the guidance provided by the Governing Body at its Eighth Session. This notification also encourages the participation of Treaty...

I am pleased to inform you that the full Report and the fourteen resolutions adopted by the Eighth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty are now online, in English, and can be accessed at: http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty/meetings/meetings-detail/en/c/1111365/ ....

The Secretariat is pleased to announce the approval of a new project under the Programme of Work on the Global Information System (GLIS) titled ‘Development of a globally agreed list of descriptors for in situ Crop Wild Relatives documentation’. The main...

Following the publication of the dates of the Eighth Session of the Governing Body in January, I am now pleased to inform you that the invitation letters have been dispatched through the official channels of communication. The Session will be held...