Germany, Namibia, the Netherlands and Zambia have recently notified the Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) of national collections with more than 120.000 accessions of important staple crops that are included in the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit -sharing. The notifications refer to collections with a large number of accessions of rice, beans, sorghum, cowpea, sweet potato, apples, finger millet and cassava, mainly. read more