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Сельскохозяйственные биотехнологии
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Вопросы Новостей касаются применения биотехнологий в производстве продовольствия и ведении сельского хозяйства в развивающихся странах и их главный фокус – на деятельности ФАО, других агентств / органов ООН и 15 исследовательских центров Консультативной группы по международным сельскохозяйственным исследованиям (CGIAR). Вопросы Новостей включают все секторы по производству продовольствия и ведения сельского хозяйства (семеноводство, лесное хозяйство, рыбное хозяйство / аквакультуру, животноводство, агропромышленность) и широкий спектр биотехнологий (напр., использование молекулярных рынков, искусственного осеменения, триплоидизации, биологических удобрений, микроклонального размножения, геномики, генетической модификации, и т.д.). В бюллетень новостей включены новые документы, которые доступны также на веб-странице, но для тех, кто не может их скачать или нуждаются в дальнейшей информации, предлагаются электронные адреса для контакта. Служба новостей начала функционировать в январе 2002 года, и все статьи, вышедшие с этого времени, доступны (всего за 9 лет их было 800). Новости и события с веб-страницы также рассылаются электронным путем, в форме электронного бюллетня FAO-BiotechNews, который издается на шести различных языках: арабском, английском, французском, испанском, китайском и русском. Для подписки на этот бюллетень необходимо направить электронное письмо по адресу: [email protected], с указанием электронного адреса, на который просите отправлять и на каком языке желаете получать бюллетень.
16/07/2003
The June 2003 newsletter from the Animal Production and Health Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture and the FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory is now available (32 pages). The newsletter, issued twice a year, gives an overview of past and upcoming activities and events. Many of the items, such as the announcement of a new Co-ordinated Research Project on gene-based technologies in livestock breeding, are directly related to agricultural biotechnology. See http://www.iaea.org/programmes/nafa/d3/public/ap-nl-38.pdf (610 KB) or contact [email protected] for further information.
15/07/2003
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) organised a policy dialogue on "GMOs adoption and trade: Policy options for developing countries" on 18 July 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland. See information on the meeting, as well as an Issues Note prepared by UNCTAD and "Agricultural biotechnology for developing countries: a strategic overview or demand and supply", an advance unedited version of a paper by one of the keynote speakers (A. Sasson), at http://r0.unctad.org/stdev/services/gmo.html. For more information, contact [email protected].
02/07/2003
Since its launch in April 2003, FAO-BioDeC (an on-line searchable database ( http://www.fao.org/biotech/inventory_admin/dep/default.asp) providing information on crop biotechnology products/techniques in use or in the pipeline in developing countries) has been a very popular addition to the FAO Biotechnology website. To keep it up to date, a system for information verification and updating by national correspondents has been put in place. So far, 53 correspondents (listed at http://www.fao.org/biotech/inventory_admin/biodec-corr.htm) from 50 countries have volunteered to assist us in this task. We are now looking for volunteers to cover the remaining developing countries. Ideally, FAO-BioDeC National Correspondents should be working in the public sector, specialising in agricultural biotechnology or in a related area, and they should be up-to-date with the status of development, adoption and application of crop biotechnologies in their country. If your country is not yet represented, and you are willing to volunteer to be a FAO-BioDeC National Correspondent, please send an e-mail indicating your interest to [email protected].
01/07/2003
The Codex Alimentarius Commission opened its 26th session on 30 June with representatives from 169 countries coming together to decide on the adoption of a number of new food safety standards designed to safeguard the health of consumers worldwide, while improving global agricultural trade opportunities. Standards considered by the Commission include the establishment of methods to assess the risk of foods derived from biotechnology. The meeting continues until 7 July. See a press release on the opening of the meeting at http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/19943-en.html (in Arabic, English, French and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for further information.
30/06/2003
A number of draft International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) have been approved for country consultation in 2003 by the Standards Committee of the Interim Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (the Commission is the governing body for the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)). One of the draft ISPMs aims to provides guidance on the criteria for evaluating potential risks to plants and plant health posed by living modified organisms. It is available at http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/Publ/ISPM/Drafts03/drafts03e.htm (in English, French and Spanish). Comments on the draft ISPM should be channelled through the National official contact points for the respective countries, following the established guidelines on the IPPC website, before October 2003. The IPPC is a multilateral treaty, administered through the IPPC Secretariat located in FAO Headquarters, that aims to secure a common and effective action to prevent the spread and introduction of pests of plants and plant products, and to promote appropriate measures for their control. Contact [email protected] for more information.
29/06/2003
On 13 June, the 50th country ratified the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, meaning that the Protocol enters into force on 11 September 2003. The objective of the Protocol is "to contribute to ensuring an adequate level of protection in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health, and specifically focusing on transboundary movements". The first Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol will take place in the first quarter of 2004 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. See http://www.biodiv.org/biosafety/ratification.asp or contact [email protected] for more information.
28/06/2003
The 4th issue of the UNEP-GEF Biosafety Newsletter was published in June 2003. The 7-page newsletter gives an update on UNEP-GEF (United Nations Environment Programme - Global Environment Facility) projects for the development and implementation of national biosafety frameworks. See http://www.unep.ch/biosafety/newsletterbsf4.pdf or contact [email protected] for more information.
27/06/2003
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Government of Brazil have invited major biotechnology players from the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region to the LAC Regional Consultative Meeting to be held in Brasilia, Brazil on 22-25 July 2003. It is the second of four regional meetings to be held in preparation for the UNIDO Global Biotechnology Forum, that takes place in Concepción, Chile on 2-5 March 2004. The Brasilia meeting addresses what biotechnology has to offer the region and the major challenges ahead and looks at a number of specific issue areas, such as those relating to biodiversity, biosafety and intellectual property rights. See the background document and other information about the meeting at http://binas.unido.org/global_forum/html/Latin_A_Rio.html or contact [email protected] for more information.
26/06/2003
The International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), one of the 16 research centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), is the lead institute in the Program for Biosafety Systems that has just been awarded $ 14.8 million by the United States Agency for International Development. The program, which began in May 2003 and lasts for five years, supports biosafety in developing countries, working initially with Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, East and West Africa, and is likely to expand to other countries and regions in the future. The consortium and its partners running the program include public and private sector institutions, 7 of the other research centres supported by the CGIAR and a number of national and regional developing country organisations. See an ISNAR news release at http://www.futureharvest.org/pdf/Biosafety_FINAL1.pdf or contact [email protected] for more information.
25/06/2003
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just published two reports on questionnaires related to genetically modified food products. The first, entitled "Output on the questionnaire on national approaches to monitoring/detection/identification of transgenic products", compiles the results (from 21 countries) from a questionnaire intended to identify programs/systems for detection, monitoring and identification of genetically modified products or organisms. See http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2003doc.nsf/LinkTo/env-jm-mono(2003)8. The second is entitled "Report on the questionnaire on biomarkers, research on the safety of novel foods and feasibility of post-market monitoring". It compiles the results (from 18 countries) from a questionnaire aiming to "clarify the situation among member countries regarding the use of biomarkers, to collate information regarding research programmes addressing the safety of novel foods and to identify their experiences on the feasibility of post-market monitoring of novel foods". See http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2003doc.nsf/LinkTo/env-jm-mono(2003)9 or contact [email protected] to request either of the reports.
22/06/2003
The FAO Working Group on Biotechnology is pleased to announce the launch of FAO-BiotechNews-Esp. It is the Spanish version of the English-language e-mail newsletter FAO-BiotechNews, launched by FAO in January 2002. The e-mail list will provide updates of news and event items in Spanish that are relevant to applications of biotechnology in food and agriculture in developing countries. To subscribe, please send an e-mail to [email protected] leaving the subject blank and entering the following one-line text message:subscribe FAO-BiotechNews-Esp-LThe Welcome Text that subscribers receive on joining the e-mail list, describing its aims and scope and how it works, is available at http://www.fao.org/biotech/Welcome-Esp.htm (in Spanish). If you have questions or comments, contact [email protected] .
21/06/2003
The FAO Working Group on Biotechnology is pleased to announce the launch of FAO-BiotechNews-Fr. It is the French version of the English-language e-mail newsletter FAO-BiotechNews, launched by FAO in January 2002. The e-mail list will provide updates of news and event items in French that are relevant to applications of biotechnology in food and agriculture in developing countries. To subscribe, please send an e-mail to [email protected] leaving the subject blank and entering the following one-line text message:subscribe FAO-BiotechNews-Fr-LThe Welcome Text that subscribers receive on joining the e-mail list, describing its aims and scope and how it works, is available at http://www.fao.org/biotech/Welcome-Fr.htm (in French). If you have questions or comments, contact [email protected].
20/06/2003
The FAO e-mail conference entitled "Regulating GMOs in developing and transition countries", which began on 28 April, finished on 1 June 2003. There was a large number of excellent contributions, covering a wide breadth of key issues such as why developing countries need regulations covering GMOs, what kinds of regulations they should be, what risks should be assessed within the regulatory framework, how GMOs should be regulated compared to conventional crops and whether economic aspects should be included in the GMO regulatory framework. Roughly 400 people registered for this moderated conference, posting a total of 93 messages. Messages came from people in 19 different countries, with highest numbers from the United States, India, South Africa, Canada and Australia respectively. Half of the messages came from people living in developing countries. The messages are available at http://www.fao.org/biotech/logs/c9logs.htm or can be requested as a single e-mail (size 154 KB) from [email protected].
19/06/2003
The report of the 17th biennial session of FAO`s Committee on Agriculture (COAG), held at FAO Headquarters, Rome from 31 March to 4 April 2003, is now available. The meeting was attended by representatives of 113 Members of the Committee (which has 124 Member nations plus one Member organisation, the European Community) and by 60 observers including 39 international NGOs. COAG`s main task is to review and provide advice on FAOs programme of work in food and agriculture, including on selected international development issues. Among the items discussed at the meeting was the concept of Biosecurity in food and agriculture as well as FAO`s role regarding biotechnology applications in agriculture. See http://www.fao.org/Unfao/bodies/council/cl124/cl124-e.htm (document CL 124/9 - in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish) or contact Boyd Haight, COAG Secretary, directly or through [email protected] , for more information.
18/06/2003
The 26th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission takes place at FAO Headquarters, Rome from 30 June to 7 July 2003. The provisional agenda for the session includes a broad range of topics such as risk analysis policies of the Commission and consideration of draft standards and related texts (some related to "GM food") submitted by subsidiary Codex Committees and Task Forces to the Commission for adoption. See the provisional agenda and documents at http://www.codexalimentarius.net/codex/codex-e.htm (in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for further information.
17/06/2003
The FAO Conference, at its 31st session in November 2001, approved the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Its objectives are the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from their use. The Treaty was opened for signature at FAO Headquarters from 3 November 2001 until 4 November 2002, during which time 77 States plus the European Community signed the Treaty. The current status (11 June 2003) is that 21 States have ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to the Treaty. It enters into force on the 90th day after the deposit of the 40th instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. Governments that have ratified it will make up its Governing Body. At its first meeting, the Governing Body will take decisions on important matters , such as the level, form and manner of monetary payments on commercialisation, a standard Material Transfer Agreement, mechanisms for compliance, and the funding strategy. Countries may therefore consider it important to be among the first to ratify, so as to ensure that their national and regional interests can be taken into account at this first meeting. See http://www.fao.org/Legal/TREATIES/033s-e.htm or contact [email protected] for more information.
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