At a side event to the 38th session of the FAO Ministers Conference in Rome on 18 june, the initiative to lauch the Access to Seeds Index will be presented by a delegation of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, led by the Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Sharon Dijksma. A first appraisal will be given by the Minister of Food and Agriculture of the Republic of Ghana, the Hon. Clement Kofi Humado and by John Atkin, COO of Syngenta.