Nutrition

Italian fruit diversity on display

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.

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