Agricultural biotechnologies in developing countries (ABDC-10) conference

The FAO international technical conference on "Agricultural biotechnologies in developing countries: Options and opportunities in ...more

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FAO documents for ABDC-10

FAO has prepared an extensive series of documents for the FAO international technical conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies ...more

CGRFA - 12th Regular Session

At the 12th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA), held at FAO Headquarters, ...more

GM food safety training package

FAO’s Food Quality and Standards Service has recently published “GM food safety assessment: Tools for trainers”. The training ...more

Codex texts on foods derived from modern biotechnology

The Codex Alimentarius Commission has recently published “Foods derived from modern biotechnology”, containing texts that ...more

Biosafety Protocol News 6

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has published the 6th issue of Biosafety Protocol News. The 23-page ...more

OECD - Bioeconomy to 2030

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

Agricultural biotechnologies in developing countries – Learning from the past

The background document to the FAO e-mail conference entitled “Learning from the past: Successes and failures with agricultural ...more

ABDC-10 website

The FAO international technical conference on “Agricultural biotechnologies in developing countries: Options and opportunities in ...more

Codex Committee on Food Labelling - 37th session report

The report of the 37th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling, that took place on 4-8 May 2009 in Calgary, Canada, is ...more

Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling - 30th session report

The report of the 30th Session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling, that took place on 9-13 March 2009 in ...more

Biotechnology and biosafety in Belarus

FAO has just published a report entitled “The status of agricultural biotechnology and biosafety in Belarus”. The 33-page report ...more

Reports of regional consultations on plant breeding capacity

The Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building (GIPB), FAO and partners have previously carried out a ...more

Socio-economic impacts of non-GM biotechnologies: Micropropagation

FAO’s Research and Extension Division has just published “Socio-economic impacts of non-transgenic biotechnologies in developing ...more

State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources - Translations

In September 2007, FAO released "The State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture", a comprehensive ...more

Risk analysis in aquaculture

As part of its Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper series, FAO's Fisheries and Aquaculture Department has just published ...more

EUFMD Standing Technical Committee meeting

The Research Group of the Standing Technical Committee of the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease ...more

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Fourth international date palm conference
15 March 2010 - 17 March 2010

Sponsored, among others, by FAO, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Environment Program, one of its m...more

The Strategic Framework for FAO 2000-2015

Medium Term Plan 2004-2009

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