It suggests that as climate change increases, demand for new drought and flood resistant seed varieties is also rising.

The meeting of the 136-nation pact will discuss expanding the list of plant species in the Treaty’s global gene pool and a subscription model for users of crop diversity to generate income for farmers conserving ancestral crops in the field. This will be in addition to the Treaty’s current benefit-sharing fund that has directly helped nearly half a million poor farmers.

The event will also tackle how to enact the Treaty’s obligation to set up a global crop information system to make it easier for plant breeders to identify and access genetic material for the development of new varieties.

More information on the Governing Body: http://www.planttreaty.org/content/gb6

List of crops covered by the Treaty: http://www.planttreaty.org/content/article-xiv#  

Statistics on the global exchange of seed genetic resources: https://mls.planttreaty.org/itt/index.php?r=stats/pubStats

Latest on countries interdependence in plant genetic resources: http://ciat-library.ciat.cgiar.org/Articulos_Ciat/biblioteca/CIAT_PB_25_WHERE_OUR_FOOD_CROPS_COME_FROM.pdf