FAO Biotechnology Glossary - Russian translation

The FAO Biotechnology Glossary is now available in Russian. Apart from a translation of the over 3,000 terms and definitions ...more

Pest free potato micropropagative material

The Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) has submitted for member consultation a number of draft ...more

Biotechnology policy documents of FAO members

The annotated list of on-line biotechnology policy documents of FAO members has recently been updated. Most of the 24 entries are ...more

Final reports of COP-MOP 4 and COP-9

The final reports of the 4th meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 4), held on 12-16 May 2008 in ...more

UNIDO e-Biosafety courses

As part of a network of regional centres providing comprehensive training in biosafety established by the United Nations ...more

OECD bioeconomy project: Scenarios, business models, IPRs, regulation, ethics

In 2005, the International Futures Programme (IFP) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) embarked ...more

bEcon bibliography

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has just released bEcon, a web-based bibliography including ...more

Ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources

A new publication, entitled "Multi-institutional distance learning course on the ex situ conservation of plant genetic ...more

Global assessment of plant breeding capacity

Since 2002, FAO and its partners have been carrying out a survey to assess national plant breeding and related biotechnology ...more

Micropropagation for sugarcane seed production

A new report on "Micropropagation for quality seed production in sugarcane in Asia and the Pacific", by N.C. Jalaja, D. ...more

Agricultural biotechnology network - Near East and North Africa

On 15-16 December 2007, an expert consultation meeting for the establishment of a regional network for agricultural biotechnology ...more

Consultation on jatropha development

On 10-11 April 2008, the "International consultation on pro-poor Jatropha development" was held in Rome, Italy, jointly organised ...more

Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Information volume 30

The latest Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Information bulletin (volume 30, part 2) is now available on the web. Published twice a ...more

Codex Committee on Food Labelling - 36th session report

The report of the 36th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL), that took place from 28 April to 2 May 2008 in ...more

IPPC diagnostic protocols meeting report

Five technical panels have been set up under the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). One of these, the Technical ...more

Aarhus Convention - GMOs workshop

On 19-20 May 2008, an international workshop on "Good practices regarding access to information, public participation and access ...more

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First scientific meeting of the Global Cassava Partnership (GCP-I)
21 July 2008 - 25 July 2008

The aims of GCP-I include "provision of a forum for cassava stakeholders to share knowledge and experiences relating to R&D in the...more

International symposium on induced mutations in higher plants.
12 August 2008 - 14 August 2008

Organised by the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, this will be the 8th in its symposium seri...more

International conference on sorghum for biofuel
19 August 2008 - 22 August 2008

Organised, among others, by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the conference's objec...more

How to establish and implement a risk management system for genetically modified (GM) crops
8 September 2008 - 11 September 2008

A regional workshop organised by the Government of the Czech Republic with the support of FAO's Regional Office for Europe and Cen...more

The 5th international hybrid rice symposium
11 September 2008 - 15 September 2008

Convened, among others, by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the symposium brings together leading researchers fro...more

Agroforestry and tree genetics: Making markers meaningful
29 September 2008 - 3 October 2008

A training workshop, organised by the World Agroforestry Centre, whose overall purpose is to more effectively apply molecular mark...more

The Strategic Framework for FAO 2000-2015

Medium Term Plan 2004-2009

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