Appendices

APPENDIX 1
MEMBERSHIP OF THE FAO PANEL OF EXPERTS ON FOREST GENE RESOURCES
Period 1 December 1989 – 30 November 1992

COMPOSITION DU GROUPE D'EXPERTS FAO DES RESSOURCES GÉNÉTIQUES FORESTIÈRES
Période ler décembre 1989 – 30 novembre 1992

COMPOSICIÓN DEL CUADRO DE EXPERTOS FAO EN RECURSOS GENÉTICOS FORESTALES
Período 1 de diciembre de 1989 – 30 de noviembre de 1992

¹ Substituted in this Session by J.C. Doran, CSIRO, Australia

APPENDIX 2
AGENDA

FAO PANEL OF EXPERTS ON FOREST GENE RESOURCES
Seventh Session

Rome, Italy 4–6 December 1989
(German Room, C-269)

1. Opening of the Meeting

2. Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman

3. Adoption of the Agenda

4. Progress since the 6th Session of the Panel (Dec. 1985):

   1. Brief statements by individual members (regional/sub-regional issues)
   2. FAO Regular Programme
   3. FAO Trust Fund and field programmes

   4. Other international activities and initiatives

5. Issues of special interest and relevance:

   1. Concepts and terminology used for seed sources
   2. Computerized information systems for Seed Centres

   3. Plant biotechnologies

6. Discussion on priorities for future action (plenary and group work):

   1. Species priorities

   2. Operational priorities
      • Conservation in and ex situ
      • Exploration, collection, evaluation
      • Utilization (including traditional and advanced strategies)
      • Documentation, dissemination of information, training

      • International coordination (including also coordination at interdisciplinary level)

7. Proposals for FAO Regular Programme Activities

   1. Short term

   2. Medium/long term

8. Proposals for Other Projects and Activities

9. Miscellaneous and Other Business

10. Recommendations re next meeting of the Panel

11. Closing of the meeting

APPENDIX 3
LIST OF SECRETARIAT NOTES

1. Tentative Agenda

2. Tentative Time Table

3. List of Secretariat Notes

4. List of Secretariat Notes by Agenda Item

5. Documents sent to Panel Members in June 1989

6. Documents sent to Panel Members in October 1989

7. Documents distributed as general background information to Panel members

8. List of Panel members

9. Financial Contributions in the Forest Genetic Resources Field (FAO/RP), 1984–1989

10. Seed Distribution in coordination with FAO/RP

11. Provenance Trials coordinated with FAO collaboration

12. FAO Project on Genetic Resources for Arid/Semi-arid Zones

13. FAO/UNEP Project on in situ Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources

14. FAO/France Project on Coordination of Genetic Resources work in the Sahelian/North Sudanian zones of Africa

15. Recent Developments in Forestry Research

16. Concepts and Terminology used for Seed Sources

17. Computerized Information Systems for Seed Centres

18. Plant Biotechnologies for Developing Countries

19. Recommendations of the 6th Session of the FAO Panel of Experts on Forest Gene Resources

APPENDIX 4
FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE FOREST GENETIC RESOURCES FIELD BY FAO'S REGULAR PROGRAMME (US$) 1984–1989 ¹

NOTES

¹ Personnel and travel costs for HQ staff are not included in the above figures.

² Figures in brackets refer to Trust Funds for activities implemented through the Regular Programme.

³ Approximate figures for dissemination of information, consultancies, meetings and miscellaneous.

Appendix 5.
FOREST GENETIC RESOURCES PRIORITIES (BY REGION, SPECIES AND OPERATION).

Notes:

General. This Appendix represents an up-dated and revised version of the earlier tables which appeared as Appendix 5 of the Report of the 6th Session of the Panel (1985). The Panel recognized that many of the priority ratings must be considered tentative, and in many cases information is inadequate to allow even a tentative rating to be made (see e.g. additional lists at the end of the present Appendix)¹.

Species importance rating (columns 1 to 3). The importance rating for a species is expected to remain constant over one to several decades, however, priority ratings for individual operations may change to reflect progress in genetic resources work. New species are also likely to be added to reflect new priorities, e.g. in the present table, species suitable for the production of energy and food/fodder are prominent and many such species have been added to those identified at earlier meetings of the Panel.

Scores. The following scores are used on columns 1– 3:

End use. The importance ratings are divided between three categories of end use, as follows:

Operational priority rating (columns 4 – 13).

Four priority ratings are used, as follows:

Relationship of operational priorities to species importance. Generally, individual species would not have a higher priority for a particular operation than their importance rating, except in the case of conservation of endangered or vulnerable species. Other exceptions which exist, are those potentially valuable species, in which further study on distribution, variation and utilization is considered likely to lead to an up-grading of their species priority rating, either in their native habitat or as exotics; and those species used in breeding, for example, for disease resistance.

Species of importance rating 1 normally merit priority 1 in at least on operation; alternatively, they may have been classified 4 in at least one operation, thus indicating progress in work.

(E) signifies endangered with extinction or severe depletion of the gene pool.

(Additional lists on Argentina, Chile, Peru, Central America, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Mauritius, India, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea- Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Tchad are found on pp. 77– 79).

¹ At the present Session, the Panel decided to undertake yearly or bi-yearly revisions of the present list, vigorously involving institutes in regions covered by each of them.