The flawed text of a new global treaty which could ensure future food security by conserving and protecting the genetic resources of the world's most important food crops has finally been agreed. The treaty is the International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, or IU. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) immediately criticised the weakened text for enshrining OECD countries' priority to support private profit rather than food security, and for subordinating this environmental treay to the trade rules of the WTO - including its contentious agreement on intellectual property rights (TRIPs).