Based on a proposal from Norway, developed by FNI’s expert Regine Andersen, the Governing Body of the Plant Treaty has agreed to step up its work on conservation and sustainable use of crop genetic diversity.

Iver B. Neumann, incoming Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, has been awarded this year’s Guicciardini prize for best book in historical international relations.

Foreign aid and the concept of ‘environmental rights’ have been instrumental in shaping the development of post-soviet Armenia, a new book reveals.