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All serious environmental threats are now international in scope and more than one thousand international environmental agreements already exist. Yet the prospe

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The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) is a pivotal piece of recent legislation, providing a route map for the u