1131) Mutually supportive implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and the Plant Treaty: Scenarios for consideration by national focal points and other interested stakeholders

The objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) are basically identical – the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources and the equitable sharing of benefits derived from their use....

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2017

1132) Agricultural biodiversity to manage the risks and empower the poor

An International Conference was held in Rome, Italy 27-29 April 2015 to launch the IFAD and EU supported Project ‘Linking agrobiodiversity value chains, climate adaptation and nutrition: Empowering the poor to manage risk’. These Proceedings share the abstracts of expert presentations delivered at...

Subject: Crop diversity

Regions: Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication year: 2016

1133) Agrobiodiversity: The living library

The world has more than 50,000 edible plants. But 90% of the world's energy demands are fulfilled by just 15 crops, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Dependency on a handful of crops is problematic. In cultivating countless generations of a few...

Subject: Crop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2017

1134) The Plants That Feed the World: baseline data and metrics to inform strategies for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (pre-publication)

A pre-publication of the study, “The Plants That Feed the World: baseline data and metrics to inform strategies for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture”, was made available to the Ninth Session of the Governing Body as information document IT/GB-9/22/16.2/Inf.1....

Subject: Seed system

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2022

1135) Introduction to Access and Benefit Sharing

Subject: Recognition schemes for farmers

Regions: Global

Publication year: 2011