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  • Costa Rica's Local Potato Species Solve Global Problems

    Document type: Communication material

    Fact sheet on the project under the Benefit-sharing Fund in Costa Rica, which addresses the identification of useful potato germplasm adapted to biotic and abiotic stresses caused by global climate change. The effects of global climate change such as heat, coldness, drought or flooding are likely to threaten sustainable agriculture and food security. The goals of this project are to characterize wild species of potato resistant and tolerant to different biotic and abiotic stresses and obtain new potato varieties adapted to climate change for sustainable agriculture.


  • Lesson 1 – A Global Treaty for Food Security in an Era of Climate Change

    Document type: Training Material

    This lesson is part of “Educational Module 1 – Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture”. It exhibits the importance of the International Treaty as a policy vehicle to tackle some of the major global challenges humanity is currently facing: climate change, food security and the loss of crop diversity. It provides up-to-date overviews of trends and scenarios for all three challenges, and shows how the main components of the International Treaty contribute to cope with these.


  • Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

    Document type: Training Material

    This is the first in a series of comprehensive educational modules on the International Treaty. It outlines the main components of the International Treaty in the context of current global challenges and the broader legal framework governing crop diversity. Providing learners with key concepts and historical background, the lessons of Educational Module 1 are especially designed for newcomers to the biodiversity policy area. They constitute a comprehensive introduction to the International Treaty and form the basis for the lessons of the subsequent modules. “Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture” has been produced under the coordination of the Secretariat through a participatory process involving international experts and stakeholders from all regions. (6 MB the full download). The five individual lessons of the module are also included in this virtual library.


  • Report of the Chair

    Document type: Meeting


  • The Cordoba Declaration, 2010

    Document type: Other

    The Declaration list a series of actions are urgently needed to address the challenges of food security and climate change, and to end the unacceptable and continuing loss of biodiversity.


  • The International Treaty Joins Spain’s Celebrations of Agrobiodiversity

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    		 Cordoba (Spain), 14 September 2010 - The Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Dr Shakeel Bhatti has participated today in the International Seminar on the role of role of agricultural biodiversity in helping to ensure global food security in the context of climate change, organized by the University of Cordoba, in Spain.

  • International Seminar on the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean

    ITPGRFA
    		 The Secretariat of the International Treaty, together with the International Spanish Cooperation Agency (AECI) and the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs of Spain recently organized a seminar for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region in Colombia on the implementation of the Treaty.