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Central and West Asia and North Africa Regional Meeting Report
7. Mr H David Cooper, International
Conference and Programme for Plant Genetic Resources, FAO,
outlined the Global Plan of Action for the conservation and
sustainable use of PGRFA which had been adopted at the International
Technical Conference Leipzig, June 1996. He emphasized that
it was agreed at Leipzig that the implementation of the Plan
is the responsibility of all stakeholders. 8. Mr
Mohamed Tazi summarized the state of implementation of
each of the 20 activities of the GPA in the region based upon
the reports provided by countries and noted some of the major
bottlenecks. 9. The state of implementation
of the GPA, the major constraints, and how these may be overcome
was then addressed in working groups, which reported back
to the Plenary (annex 1).
10. Mr Aissa Abdelguerfi
reported on the recent meeting held by IPGRI concerning
priority setting for under-utilized crops in CWANA. He
emphasized the importance of neglected and under utilized
species and associated local knowledge for the conservation of
biodiversity, and their contribution to food
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