Mise à jour: 22/05/2013

Video Gallery

  • Mr Braulio Dias, Executive Secretary of the CBD, talks of the Ongoing Collaboration with the International Treaty
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    In this video, CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias speaks of the growing collaboration between the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) in the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the equitable sharing of benefits.

    The video message was delivered on the occasion of a side event organized by the International Treaty during the 14th Meeting of the CGRFA. In his message, Mr Dias highlights the critical importance of crop genetic diversity for achieving food security worldwide and for sustainable development in the context of poverty alleviation and climate change. He also speaks of the Nagoya Protocol, adopted in 2010, and about the Treaty-CBD Joint Initiative, launched on the margins of the Rio+20 Summit in 2012.

  • Mr Agus Prihatin Saptono
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    Mr Saptono announced the hosting of the Third High-level Round Table on the International Treaty by Indonesia in Bandung. Rome 18 January 2013.

  • Ms Kakoli Ghosh, Agriculture Officer
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    Ms Ghosh highlighted the cooperation between FAO technical services and the International Treaty in the policy seed sector.

  • Mr Daniel Gustafson, FAO Deputy Director-General, Operations
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    In opening the session, the Deputy Director-General, Dan Gustafson, highlighted the shift from normative work to its current practical field application, mainly since 2007, and the support that this instrument receives from FAO, both in Headquarters and through the decentralized offices.

  • Mr Clayton Campanhola, Executive Secretary, Rotterdam Convention
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    Intervention of Mr Campanhola during the briefing organized by the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture for Permanent Representatives in Rome on 18 January 2013.  Mr Campanhola talks on the importance of the Treaty and The Rotterdam convention as instruments for global governance in the agricultural sector.

  • Characterization, genetic enhancement and Revitalization of finger millet in western Kenya
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    This video shows the impact of the Benefit-sharing Project "Characterization, genetic enhancement and Revitalization of finger millet in Western Kenya". The project was funded by 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 talks on the Rio Six-Point Action Plan on the International Treaty
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    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.

  • Professor Anil K. Gupta talks to the participants of the Second High Level Round Table
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    Professor Anil K. Gupta talks to the participants of the Second High Level Round Table of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture on the work of Indian farmers and the assets of poorest farmers, including traditional knowledge.

  • Farmers Rights - Regine Andersen - Fridtjof Nansen Institute
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    Regine Andersen, Director of the Farmers' Rights Project and Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansens Institute (FNI), Norway, presents FNI's work on farmers' rights to crop genetic resources.

  • H. E. John Agyekum Kufuor talks on the International Treaty on PGRFA
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    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.

     

     

  • François Burgaud talks on the International Treaty on the occasion of Rio+20
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    François Burgaud, Director External Relations of GNIS (France's National Inter-Professional Association for Seeds and Plants) talks on the support of the French seed sector to the Treaty. He refers to the important role of the Treaty in the breeding process to produce more with less resources. He refers to French farmers, who cultivate more than 6000 different seed varieties in 20,000 million hectares, and to the French breeders who put in market around 600 new improved varieties every year.

     

     

  • Mr Francis Gurry talks on the ongoing collaboration with the Treaty
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    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

     

     

  • Dr Shakeel Bhatti, Secretary of the International Treaty
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    Dr Shakeel Bhatti describes the challenges of the international community has still ahead in the governance of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the opportunity that the United Nations Summit at Rio de Janeiro offers to initiate a more coherent approach and action

     

     

  • Address of Prof. MS Swaminathan to the participants of the High-Level Round Table
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    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.

  • Prof. José Esquinas-Alcázar
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    Prof. José Esquinas-Alcázar- talks about some of the pending major challenges the Treaty will have to face in the years to come, including its acceptance by a greater number of countries and the set up of national implementation programs.
     

     

     

     

  • Cette semence, c’est moi qui la produit
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    L'Institut national de recherche agricole (INRA) d'Uruguay, constatant qu'aucune des variétés de pommes de terres commerciales du pays ne présentait une résistance au flétrissement bactérien, s'est tourné vers sa variété sauvage apparentée locale, cherchant à reproduire la résistance naturelle de S. commersonii chez les variétés commerciales. Les tentatives initiales n'ont pas été couronnées de succès, car la distance génétique était trop grande. Le projet du Fonds fiduciaire pour le partage des avantages du Traité a ensuite contourné cet obstacle en utilisant une technique faisant appel à des intermédiaires pour introduire les traits génétiques de l'espèce sauvage apparentée dans le pool cultivé et a aussi découvert que S. commersonii est résistante aux conditions de sècheresse et de froid ainsi qu'au flétrissement bactérien. Langage: espagnol avec sous-titres en français

  • Esa Papa la hago yo
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    El Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) de Uruguay, consciente de que no había resistencia a la marchitez bacteriana en ninguna de las variedades de patata comercial del país, recurrió a su afín silvestre autóctono y buscó mejorar la resistencia natural de la S. commersonii en las variedades comerciales de Uruguay. Los intentos iniciales no fueron exitosos porque la distancia genética era demasiado amplia. Actualmente, el Proyecto del Fondo de distribución de beneficios del Tratado logró sortear este obstáculo mediante el uso de una técnica puente, que lleva los rasgos genéticos valiosos del afín silvestre al acervo cultivado, y también descubrió que la S. commersonii tiene resistencia a las condiciones de sequía y frío, así como a la marchitez bacteriana.

  • Importance and Uniqueness of the Benefit-sharing Fund (2011) – BSF Projects
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    The experts that evaluated the projects proposals presented to the second Call talk about the importance and uniqueness of the benefit-sharing fund of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

    Date of publication: Nov 2011

    Duration 7:26

  • The Panel of Experts of the BSF: role, process and lessons learned – BSF Projects (2011)
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    The experts that evaluated the projects proposals presented to the Second Call of the Benefit-sharing Fund of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture talk about the their role, the process and the lessons learned.

    Date of publication: Nov 2011

    Duration 6:16

  • I produce that seed myself
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    An unassuming wild vine brings power to Uruguayan potatoes

    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’snatural 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.
     
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    Language: Spanish with English subtitles