As part of its on-line "Focus on the issues" series, FAO`s Media Relations Office has just released "Agricultural biotechnology: will it help?". This series of nine articles, aiming to provide background information for the non-specialist, describes current and potential applications of agricultural biotechnology, focusing on genetic modification, for animals, crops, fish and trees. It also presents the main arguments put forward both for and against the use of GMOs in agriculture and, finally, provides links to other information sources. See http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/focus/2003/gmo1.htm (in Arabic, English, French and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for more information.

20/04/2003