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| Matters Arising From CGRFA-8 |
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The Commission
on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture reviewed progress
in implementation of the Global Plan of Action at its Eighth
Regular Session in April.
The Commission
considered three documents:
Progress
Report on implementation of the Global Plan of Action
at its Eighth Regular Session in April.
Financing
the implementation of the Global Plan of Action and
Facilitating
and Monitoring implementation of the Global Plan of Action.
The Commission
requested FAO to provide additional information regarding
the basis of cost estimates for implementing the Global
Plan of Action.
Please
see: Revision of
cost estimates for the Global Plan of Action (CGRFA-7/97/4 Annex) (CGRFA-Ex3/96/Inf. 1 Annex)
(347Kb)
And
the additional Background information
(445Kb) on Cost estimates for the Global Plan of Action.
The Commission
stressed the importance of facilitating and monitoring implementation
of the Global Plan of Action, and recognized the central
role of FAO in this regard. It encouraged FAO to develop its
normative activities, and to facilitate implementation, through,
for example, the development of case studies and guidelines,
advice to countries on establishing national programmes and
plans, capacity-building and support to community plant genetic
resources for food and agriculture management. It noted that
possible institutional mechanisms, and policy issues, were
being considered in the context of the negotiations for the
revision of the International Undertaking.
See
News item: "Countries
agree to establish a multilateral system for plant genetic
resources for food and agriculture".
National
Focal Points were invited to provide written comments to the
Secretariat on the reporting format and indicators provided
in the document on Facilitating
and Monitoring implementation of the Global Plan of Action.
Countries were also encouraged to identify, confirm or re-designate
National Focal Points as soon as possible.
Comments
on the reporting format and indicators may be sent to icppgr@fao.org
(Official
requests for comments and for designation of focal points
will be sent in due course).
The Commission
agreed that a second Report on the State of the World's
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and
amendment to the Global Plan of Action, should be considered
by the Commission after the completion of the negotiations
for the revision of the International Undertaking. It was
suggested that, in the longer term, a Report on the State
of Agricultural Biodiversity might be envisaged.
The Report
of the Commission and all documents prepared for the Commission
are available here.
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| Regional Meetings |
| Regional Meetings to Promote Implementation
of the GPA (To promote implementation of the Global Plan of Action (1.2Mb) in the various
regions, a series of regional and sub-regional meetings have
been held during the course of 1998, co-sponsored by the Systemwide
Genetic Resources Programme on the CGIAR and the relevant regional
agricultural reserach organizations. Annexes and appendices
will be added on this site in due course.)
- Western and Central Africa, 16 - 19 February,
1998, Cotonou, Benin
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Afrique del l'Ouest et
du centre, 16 - 19 février, 1998,
Cotonou, Benin (French
version)
Print
version (Acrobat-PDF 73,2 Kb)
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Eastern and Southern Africa, 18 - 21 May, 1998,
Gaboronne, Botswana
Print
version (Acrobat-PDF 22,5 Kb)
- Central and West
Asia, and North Africa, 22 - 25 June, 1998, Aleppo, Syria
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43,0 Kb)
- Europe, 30 June - 3 July,
1998, Braunschweig, Germany
- Latin
America and the Caribbean, 22 - 25 September, 1998, Cali,
Colombia (spanish)
Print
version (Acrobat-PDF 32,7 Kb)
- Asia and the Pacific,
15 - 18 December, 1998, Manila
Print
version (Acrobat-PDF 34,9 Kb)
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| Specific projects and programmes
of GPA Implementation |
Strengthening National Programmes
Base-Broadening Initiative
Seed Security Policy and Programme
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