Dr Shakeel Bhatti, Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) addresses the participants of the Global Consultation onUse and Management of Agrobiodiversity for Sustainable Food Security held in New Delhi from 12 to 14 February 2013. In his intervention Dr Bhatti highlights the recent achievements in the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing and the Benefit-sharing Fund of the Treaty. He also refers to the work of the Treaty on sustainable use and to the Rio Six-points Action Plan of 2012.

Ms Ghosh highlighted the cooperation between FAO technical services and the International Treaty in the policy seed sector.

Mr Olyntho Vieira, Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to FAO, and Mr Claudio Miscia, Deputy Permanent Representative of Italy to FAO, comment on the outcomes of the Second High-Level Round Table on the International Treaty during the briefing session hold in Headquarters on 7 September 2012.

This video shows the impact of the Benefit-sharing Project "Characterization, genetic enhancement and Revitalization of finger millet in western Kenya" that was funded through the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture under the first project cycle. The video includes interviews with Professor Mathews M. Dida, School of Agriculture and Food Security of the Maseno University, who explains the major achievements and also interviews with a group of local farmers who talk about the performance of the new varieties and how they reduce the drudgery of work, increase their income and the nutritional values compared to the old ones. The results of the project contribute to poverty alleviation in the in Nyanza and Western Provinces of Kenya where a decline in finger millet production had been registered over the last 50 years.

Mauricio Lopes, Executive Director of Research at Embrapa, talks on the outcomes of the Rio Six-Point Action Plan and on the outcomes of the Second High-Level Round Table on the International Treaty. The event, chaired by Mr Lopes, was organized in Rio de Janeiro on 21 June 2012 by the Governments of Brazil, Norway and Italy on the occasion of the UN Summit Rio+20. He also refers to the follow-up efforts for the establishment of a Platform for the co-development of technologies on plant genetic resources use and conservation.

H.E. President John Kufuor (Republic of Ghana 2001-2009) managed during the entirety of his two terms as president to improve food security and reduce poverty through public and private sector initiatives. On the occasion of the High-Level Round Table of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources, celebrated in Rio de Janeiro, he gives some examples of how agriculture and development go together and how farmers and governments must collaborate to improve food security. He talks about the important role of the International Treaty and the need for all developing countries to work for its objectives.

On the Occasion of the Second High-Level Round Table of the International Treaty, the Director General of WIPO and Secretary-General of UPOV Mr Francis Gurry refers in this video to the extraordinary and rapid success of the Treaty in the latest years. He mentions several ongoing collaborations, like the study of the economics of the Multilateral System and the role of the WIPO Mediation and arbitration center for the Third Party Beneficiary Procedures of the Treaty.

Prof. MS Swaminathan, one of the eminent fathers of the Green Revolution in India, explains the important role of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture while addressing the participants of the Second High-Level Round Table of the International Treaty in Rio+20.

National Institution for Agricultural Research (INIA) of Uruguay, aware that there was no resistance to bacterial wilt in any of the country's commercial potato varieties, turned to its native wild relative, seeking to breed S. commersonii's natural resistance into Uruguay's commercial varieties. Initial attempts were not successful because the genetic distance was too wide. Now, the Treaty Benefit-sharing Fund Project has circumvented this by using a "bridging" technique to take the valuable genetic traits of the wild relative into the cultivated pool and also has found that S. commersonii has resistance to drought and cold conditions as well as resistance to bacterial wilt.