Common Contracts

AGREEMENT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST

October 13th, 2011

• Filed
  October 13th, 2011

WHEREAS one hundred and fifty countries meeting at the International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in Leipzig in June 1996 adopted the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the “Global Plan of Action”), which provides an internationally agreed framework for the conservation, exploration, collection, characterization, evaluation and documentation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, one of the elements of which is the development and support of a rational, efficient and sustainable system of plant genetic resources collections around the world;