Agreement with FAO to Place Center In-Trust Collections of Plant Genetic Resources under the Auspices of FAO

Memorandum from the CGIAR Secretariat, distributing a draft agreement between individual CGIAR centers and the FAO to place center in-trust germplasm collections under FAO. The draft is introduced by an IPGRI background note providing the history of the issue. An exchange of memoranda between Lukas Brader, Chair of the Inter Center Working Group on Genetic Resources, and Stanford Professor of Law John. H. Barton is attached.The purpose of distributing these documents was to obtain guidance from the CGIAR on next steps. Agenda document, CGIAR meeting, May 1994.