3 January 2011
Conclusions of High-level Round Table on ITPGR Available Online
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The moderator's summary of the outcomes of the Round Table notes that speakers emphasized the need to continue exchanging and using plant genetic resources for food and agriculture to achieve food security, and that the Treaty's Benefit-sharing Fund should be used to assist small-scale farmers to adapt to climate change.

December 2010: The moderator’s summary of the outcomes of the High-level Round Table on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR), which convened on 7 December 2010, in Rome, Italy, has been made available online.

The Round Table was hosted by the Government of Italy, with the support of the ITPGR Secretariat, under the title “Leading the Field.” Participants focused on the role of the ITPGR in addressing food security in a time of climate change. Speakers from 60 ITPGR parties emphasized: the need to continue exchanging and using plant genetic resources for food and agriculture to achieve food security, particularly in the context of the increased risks associated with climate change; the Treaty’s role in that regard; that all parties should make their relevant plant genetic resources available through the Multilateral System; that the Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund should be used to assist small-scale farmers to adapt to climate change; and that investing in the Treaty should continue and the Treaty’s Core Administrative Budget should be funded adequately.

It was noted that the ITPGR is formally recognized as one of the constituent pillars within the recently adopted Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing concluded under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and as an international adaptation-financing mechanism by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). [Meeting documents] [Moderator’s summary]


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