Dear farmer, thank you for accepting to participate in this consultation with the aim of exploring your needs and expectations related to new, improved plant varieties*. Your answers to this survey will contribute to WFO activities, with the aim of ensuring a farmer driven, science based and pragmatic approach to innovation for an improved sustainability of farming and food systems.

*"New, improved varieties of plants" means plant varieties bred with features such as improved yield, resistance to plant pests and diseases, salt and drought tolerance, better adaptation to climatic stress, or improved characteristics for users' or consumers' needs.