International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)

What the International Treaty does

Year of publication 2016

Pages 2p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Category Other document

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is an FAO international instrument that promotes the conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biological diversity. Through this legally binding treaty, Member Countries can easily exchange genetic material through facilitated access to the largest global pool of genetic diversity for food security, sustainable agriculture and climate change adaptation. The Treaty ensures that farmers, plant breeders and scienti sts have access to plant genetic resources and share the benefits, including financial resources, derived from conservation, research and breeding of those materials.

Language English

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