Protect Your Seeds, Protect Your Future
What is the Seed Treaty?
The Seed Treaty is formally known as The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). It is also known more widely as “Plant Treaty”.
The Seed Treaty aims to bring countries together in conserving and sharing seeds and/or other propagating materials to improve food security. For this purpose, it has created a multilateral access and benefit sharing system (MLS), currently covering 64 important food and forage crops. With the MLS, countries and their researchers could get access to genetic diversity across the world in these selected crops and share benefits arising from their research, both in monetary and non-monetary terms.