I really hate to be a cynical old sourpuss, 1 but I suspect the most interesting thing about today’s High Level Round Table on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at FAO 2 may well be the display of Italian fruit diversity put on by the Centro di Ricerca per la Frutticoltura.

- No you don’t. Ed.
- Which, incidentally, is on at the same time as the International Symposium on “Food and nutrition security: food-based approaches for improving diets and raising levels of nutrition.” Well, maybe it’s deliberate.