On 27 March 2003, the 20th update of FAO-BiotechNews was posted. This e-mail list, launched in January 2002, provides English-language updates of news and events items relevant to applications of biotechnology in food and agriculture in developing countries. The 20 updates contained a total of 165 items, most of them providing news (mainly about important studies or about reports or documents of relevant conferences/meetings etc. available free on the web) and the remainder providing information on upcoming conferences, training courses etc. The items focus on FAO`s work and the work of its main United Nations (UN) and non-UN partners and cover the crop, forestry, animal, fishery and agro-industrial sectors. For further information, contact [email protected]. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to [email protected] leaving the subject blank and entering the one-line text message as follows: subscribe FAO-BiotechNews-L

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