2025 at a glance for the International Plant Treaty 🌱
✔️ 28 Benefit-sharing Fund projects in 45 countries
✔️ Global progress on Farmers’ Rights
✔️ #GB11 in Lima: 16 resolutions + first Capacity Development Strategy
✔️ New olive partnership + 5 new members → 155 Parties
#Seeds
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The Youth Event at #GB11 created a dedicated space for dialogue, exchange & leadership. 🌱
Young participants shared perspectives on Farmers’ Rights, access to seeds and the role of #agrobiodiversity in building resilient food systems.
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#GB11 wraps up with 16 resolutions and renewed global cooperation to safeguard the world’s crop diversity. 🌱
Make sure to read all our press releases from GB-11 &its side events: bit.ly/3Mx79sD
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#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity
📍Lima, Peru 🇵🇪 #GB11 ended without agreement, yet CGIAR delivered: 19 talks, key reports and global recognition of our genebanks’ impact. We’ll keep working to strengthen the system for farmers everywhere
📸 Photos by IISD/ENB - Andrés Felipe Carvajal Gómez
Despite twelve years of negotiations, delegates at #ITPGRFA #GB11 failed to reach consensus on a package of measures to enhance the functioning of the @planttreaty Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
Highlights ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#agriculture #food
At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, plenary considers Chair's proposal on the enhancement of the Multilateral System of access and #BenefitSharing, including adoption of revised standard material transfer agreement (SMTA) and establishment of intersessional process on
At #GB11, discussions are still underway as delegates work through the remaining agenda items.
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At #GB11, @cipotato.org's Director-General Simon Heck highlights the Treaty’s essential role in uniting countries, institutions, companies and communities to safeguard the crop diversity that sustains our food systems. 🌱
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity
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At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, plenary addresses draft resolution on farmers' rights, terms of reference of technical expert group on the topic
Closed-door deliberations continue on the enhancement of the Multilateral System of access and #BenefitSharing
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed @fao.org
At #GB11, Christian Hofer, State Secretary of Switzerland, underscores a clear message: global challenges demand collective solutions rooted in shared plant genetic diversity. 🌱
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#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity #Cropdiversity
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Switzerland's Lukas Heinzer stresses the strengthening the Multilateral System is key to preserving the biodiversity, confronting climate change, and ensuring that benefits reach the farmers who protect our seeds. 🌱
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#GB11 #ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity
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At #GB11, Birte Komolong from Papua New Guinea stresses the need for consensus on the Multilateral System enhancement package, crucial for strengthening the Treaty & ensuring real benefits for farmers.
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#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity #MLS
At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, plenary hears concerns on limited contributions to core administrative budget, discusses budget with zero nominal growth
Consultations continue on the enhancement of the Multilateral System
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #biodiversity #FoodSecurity
The final day of #GB11 is underway in Lima.
Delegates are working to conclude a week of dialogue on the Multilateral System, Farmers’ Rights, and the global cooperation needed to conserve and share the world’s crop diversity.
Updates & livestream ➡️ bit.ly/49ugI4R
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed
At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, consultations continue on farmers' rights, conservation and sustainable use of plant #GeneticResources for #food and #agriculture, revision of the standard material transfer agreement
Last day of the meeting and much remains to be done
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed
Want to dig deeper into Friday's deliberations at #ITPGRFA #GB11 in Peru?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
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#food #agriculture @planttreaty.bsky.social
Talks at #ITPGRFA #GB11 went late on the capacity-development strategy and action plan, the Funding Strategy, and farmers' rights
Closed-door consultations continued on the enhancement of the Treaty's Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
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At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, evening plenary finalizes consideration of capacity-development strategy and action plan
Consultations are ongoing on farmers' rights, enhancement of the Multilateral System of access and #BenefitSharing
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed
At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, plenary addresses draft resolution on cooperation with @fao.org #CGRFA, including on a desk study on the effects of seed policies on farmers' ability to access seeds.
No news from the consultations on enhancement of the Multilateral System
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed
At #GB11, plenary address the capacity development strategy, draft resolution on the @planttreaty.bsky.social's Global Information System
Consultations continue on the enhancement of the Multilateral System of access and #BenefitSharing
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #biodiversity #agriculture @fao.org
Side event at #GB11: A regional look at how GIAHS sites & Agrobiodiversity Zones can drive fair benefit-sharing & support the conservation of vital genetic resources. 🌱
Read more here ➡️ bit.ly/4pCTX3M
#FoodSecurity #Cropdiversity
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Want to dig deeper into Thursday's #ITPGRFA #GB11 deliberations?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
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At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, plenary addressed draft resolutions, including on the implementation and operations of the Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
Highlights ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#ITPGRFA #food #agriculture #farmers
At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, evening plenary addresses draft resolution on the implementation and operations of the Multilateral System of access and #BenefitSharing
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity #BenefitSharing
At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, contact group continues deliberations on farmers' rights
Relationship between farmers' rights and plant variety protection on the spotlight
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #biodiversity #BenefitSharing #FoodSecurity
Peru’s rich crop diversity is the outcome of the traditional knowledge of #Indigenous Peoples and farmer communities and their respectful relationship with #MotherEarth, Peru's Minister Vladimir Cuno Salcedo underscores at @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11
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#GB11 opened in Lima, a first for Latin America and co-hosted by Peru and Switzerland.
Delegates and partners united to advance global cooperation on conserving and sharing crop diversity.
🎥 Watch the key moments from Days 1–2.
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At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, delegates conduct text-based negotiations on draft resolutions on conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for #food and #agriculture, #farmers' rights, contribution of @fao.org to the Treaty
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #biodiversity #BenefitSharing
🌱 Which plants feed the world? 🥕🍅🥑🍇
Alliance researcher Steven Sotelo helped map 355 crops that support nutrition, resilience & food security. 🌍🌾
📢 Study presented at FAO #GB11 (Lima, 24 -29 Nov 2025).
🔎 Full study 👇
🔗 https://allbiociat.org/3LZEk81
Want to dig deeper into today's @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11 talks in Peru?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
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