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Plant Treaty: Civil society organisations ask governments of Asian countries to reject amendments in the agreement

New Delhi, May 21 -- Civil society organisations in Asia have made yet another attempt to ensure that the multilateral system for benefit sharing under the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resou... Read More


Plant treaty: Proposed amendments being discussed over the week could dilute benefit-sharing provisions

New Delhi, April 1 -- The Parties to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) - also known as the Plant treaty - are gathered in Rome with a controversial a... Read More


World Forest Day: Foods from trees play crucial role in nutritional security, livelihoods

India, March 21 -- There are innumerable reasons to protect forests. Some of them are to do with the fact that local populations depend on forest produce for nutrition. Communities living in the cent... Read More