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This multi-stakeholder dialogue will discuss ways forward in mainstreaming biodiversity across agricultural sectors in Asia and the Pacific. It will also be an opportunity for consultation on FAO's Strategy on Biodiversity Mainstreaming across the Agricultural Sectors, supporting the on-going process to develop the Convention on Biodiversity's post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

July 17-19, 2019 at the Royal Orchid  Sheraton Hotel, Bangkok

Agenda and concept note

Videos:

• FAO Deputy Director-General Climate and Natural Resources (DDN),Maria Helena M.Q. Semedo
• CBD Deputy Executive Secretary, Mr. David Cooper
• FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Assistant Director General & Regional Representative:

Balancing agricultural and livelihood development while sustaining biodiversity

The business case and common sense approach to maintaining biodiversity in agriculture sector

The importance of biodiversity in Asia-Pacific agriculture sectors – a ‘wake-up call’

• H.E. Ohn Winn, Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Myanmar
• H.E. Dasho Rinzin Dorji, Hon. Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan
• H.E. Chea Sam Ang, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Environment of Cambodia
• H.E. Ambassador Mohammad Hossein Emadi, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to FAO 
• Theresa Mundita S. Lim, Executive Director of the Association of Southeast Asian Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
• Ren Wang, Director General, China National GeneBank, Shenzhen, China
• Kadambot Siddique, Hackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and Director/Professor of the UWA
  Institute of Agriculture at the University of Western Australia
• Kim Thi Thuy Ngoc, Head, Division of Science and International Cooperation, Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment, Viet Nam

Photo Album Collection on flckr of professional photos from the conference

 Documents & Links of interest:

• State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture 
• FAO Biodiversity Mainstreaming Platform
• Report of the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Biodiversity Mainstreaming across Agricultural Sectors
• FAO Biodiversity Mainstreaming Platform Brochure
• Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Biodiversity Mainstreaming across Agricultural Sectors
• High-level Regional Dialogue on the Mainstreaming of Biodiversity in the Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Sectors (DRANIBA)
• Informe del Diálogo Regional de alto nivel sobre integración de la biodiversidad en los sectores agropecuario, forestal y pesquero (DRANIBA)