Kent Nnadozie is the secretary of the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. A lawyer by training, he has worked in intergovernmental processes, legal and policy matters at the United Nations FAO. Nnadozie had also been in private legal practice and academic research.
Opinion: Crop diversity, nurtured over centuries, is eroding fast. A global gathering in Lima, Peru, will determine whether we can safeguard the genetic resources needed to feed future generations.
