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Ground-breaking benefit-sharing fund will help conserve and utilize threatened plant species
08.12.2010 15:41 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Senior representatives of more than 60 countries including 22 cabinet ministers have met in Rome as part of a new push to galvanize support behind the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources and its Benefit-sharing Fund, considered essential to conserve and utilize the worlds threatened plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
The meeting was opened by its governmental organizer, Italian Agriculture Minister Giancarlo Galan, who called on Governments to use the Treaty «to overcome the ancient and harmful clash between peasant agriculture and modernity».
The Government of Italy, together with Spain and Norway and Australia, is one of the major donors to the Benefit-sharing Fund (BSF) set up by the Treaty to support poor farmers in developing countries in conserving and adapting to climate change the most important food crops.
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