Global Information System (GLIS) provides a valuable international “one-stop shop“ for the exchange of plant resources information around the world through globally accepted standard descriptors and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), thus enabling users to access the essential information about the resources they need to optimize their utilization and to address environmental challenges.

Through the Global Information System you have access to a wealth of information, for example on the biological status of the material available:

Source: FAO, GLIS portal

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsViale delle Terme di Caracalla00153 Rome • ItalyTel: +39 0657055430 • Fax: +39 0657056347E-mail: pgrfa-treaty@fao.orgURL: www.planttreaty.org and www.fao.org/plant-treaty/en

Discovering

and usingbiodiversity

Global Information System

If you are a researcher, a plant breeder, a farmer or a policy maker, you can benefit in various ways:

• Global Information Portal – Search function

• standards for PGRFA documentation and information exchange

• DOI registration, for free

• selected tools (Capfitogen)

• global statistics

• technical advice

• available material

Unlocking biodiversity!The International TreatyON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

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Human life on earth depends on biodiversity and the options that it offers to adapt to climate, environment and production changes, but biodiversity is today at risk according to the latest reports from FAO. Crop diversity is conserved in fields and in genebanks, and is used by plant breeders in research work every day.

According to FAO, about seven million materials are conserved in genebanks worldwide. For breeders and farmers to produce enough food for our growing population, access to plant seeds and to their vital information from different parts of the world is critical. The value of crops is linked to the information available about them.

Without data on crop resources, we cannot use them!

Over the decades, we have generated an incredible amount of data and knowledge about plant resources in different ways across the globe. Lack of information used to be the challenge, nowadays fragmentation and data quality are the main issues: data are stored in many different sources and formats, many records are incomplete, appropriate standards are not always used and related resources are seldom connected. Facilitating information exchange about plant resources is, even today, essential to feed the world population.

Data standards help to increase access and use of information and material

Why biodiversity information matters?

How to solve it?

What does the International Treaty do?Since 2015, the International Treaty assists users by developing standardized ways to document, access and share million records of information about crops through the Global Information System (GLIS).

One critical step was the adoption of DOIs to identify plant material conserved by different holders in a unique and permanent way. Also, DOIs do not change over time, even when some of the information recorded may be updated. Each DOI makes relevant and useful information on the material immediately available online.The International Treaty provides DOIs free-of-charge for the community of users participating in the Global Information System.

INFORMATION ACCESS

GLIS PortalRegional and

thematic portals

USERSGlobal problems

and solutionsUp to now, researchers, farmers, and breeders

lacked a method to make data available online, or were unable to connect information available in different databases. Through the adoption of DOIs,

the GLIS Portal facilitates information exchange among different systems. With its adoption, the provision of essential data that could otherwise be missing is guaranteed, using a compatible

method in all systems that allows the data to be globally discoverable.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Fo

od and Agriculture

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla • 00153 Rome • Italy

Tel: +39 0657055430 • Fax: +39 0657056347

E-mail: pgrfa-treaty@fao.org

URL: www.planttreaty.org and www.fao.org/plant-tre

aty/en

Digital Object Identifiers

for food crops

The International Treaty

ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES

FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Descriptors and guidelines

of the Global Information System

Access to information is a non-monetary benefit of the International

Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The Global

Information System was launched in 2017 and can be accessed at

https://ssl.fao.org/glis

GLIS

I8840EN/2/10.18ISBN 978-92-5-130418-1

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PARA OBTENER MÁS INFORMACIÓN:

Tratado internacional sobre los recursos fitogenéticos para la Alimentación y la Agricultura

Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla • 00153 Roma • Italia

Teléfono: +39 0657055430 • Fax: +39 0657056347

Correo electrónico: pgrfa-treaty@fao.org

URL: www.planttreaty.org y www.fao.org/plant-treaty/en

Identificadores digitales

de objetos para cultivos

alimentarios

Tratado Internacional

SOBRE LOS RECURSOS FITOGENÉTICOS

PARA LA ALIMENTACIÓN Y LA AGRICULTURA

Descriptores y directrices del

Sistema mundial de informaciónEl acceso a la información es un beneficio no monetario del Tratado internacional

sobre los recursos fitogenéticos para la alimentación y la agricultura. El Sistema

mundial de información se puso en marcha en el 2017 y está disponible en

https://ssl.fao.org/glis

GLIS

I8840ES/1/05.18

ISBN 978-92-5-130548-5

9 7 8 9 2 5 1 3 0 5 4 8 5 للمزيد من املعلومات يرجى االتصال بـ:

املعاهدة الدولية بشأن املوارد الوراثية النباتية لألغذية والزراعة

ملنظمة األغذية والزراعة لألمم املتحدة

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla • 00153 Rome • Italy

الهاتف:390657055430+ • الفاكس: 390657056347+

pgrfa-treaty@fao.org :الربيد اإللكرتوين

www.fao.org/plant-treaty/en و www.planttreaty.org :عنوان املوقع

معرفات الكيانات الرقمية للمحاصيل الغذائية

املواصفات والخطوط التوجيهية

للنظام العاملي لإلعالم

الدولية للمعاهدة نقدية غري منفعة املعلومات عىل الحصول

تدشني تم لقد والزراعة. لألغذية النباتية الوراثية املوارد بشأن

خالل من اليه الوصول وميكن 2017 يف لإلعالم العاملي النظام

https://ssl.fao.org/glisGLIS

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Standards and tools

POUR INFORMATION, VEUILLEZ CONTACTER:

Traité international sur les ressources phytogénétiques pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture

Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla • 00153 Rome • Italie

Téléphone: +39 0657055430 • Télécopie: +39 0657056347

Courriel: pgrfa-treaty@fao.orgURL: www.planttreaty.org et www.fao.org/plant-treaty/en

Identifi ants numériques d’objets pour les cultures vivrières

Traité International SUR LES RESSOURCES PHYTOGÉNÉTIQUES

POUR L'ALIMENTATION ET L'AGRICULTURE

Descripteurs et directives du Système mondial d’information

L’accès à l’information est un avantage non monétaire du Traité international sur

les ressources phytogénétiques pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture. Le Système

mondial d’information a été lancé en 2017 et il est possible d’y accéder via : https://ssl.fao.org/glis

GLIS

I8840FR/1/05.18

ISBN 978-92-5-130545-4

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