The studies below were discussed at the Special Information Seminar Climate change and genetic resources for food and agriculture: state of knowledge, risks and opportunities", held at FAO Headquarters, Rome, on 16 July 2011.

• Climate Change and its Effect on Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and Associated Biodiversity for Food Security. Thematic Background Study. Andy Jarvis, Hari Upadhyaya, CLL Gowda, PK Aggarwal, Sam Fujisaka, Ben Anderson.
• Climate change and animal genetic resources for food and agriculture - State of knowledge, risks and opportunities. Background Study Paper No. 53. Dafydd Pilling and Irene Hoffmann.
• Climate change and invertebrate genetic resources for food and agriculture - state of knowledge, risks and opportunities. Background Study Paper No. 54. Matthew J.W. Cock, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Raymond J.C. Cannon, Philippa J. Gerard, Dave Gillespie, Juan J. Jiménez, Patrick M. Lavelle, Suresh K. Raina.
• Climate Change and Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - state of knowledge, risks and opportunities. Background Study Paper No. 55. Roger Pullin and Patrick White.
• Climate Change and Forest Genetic Resources - state of knowledge, risks and opportunities. Background Study Paper No. 56. Bruno Fady, Judy Loo, Barbara Vinceti, Giulia Baldinelli, Ian Dawson;
• Climate change and micro-organism genetic resources for food and agriculture: State of knowledge, risks and opportunities. Background Study Paper No. 57. Fen Beed Anna Benedetti, Gianluigi Cardinali, Sukumar Chakraborty, Thomas Dubois, Karen Garrett6and Michael Halewood.
• Economics of PGRFA Management for Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Selected Literature. Background Study Paper No.60. Solomon Asfaw and Leslie Lipper.
• Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the International Climate Change Policy Agenda. Information document CGRFA-13/11/Inf.10.

The programme of the Special Information Seminar  Climate change and genetic resources for food and agriculture: state of knowledge, risks and opportunities, is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The presentations of the seminar can be downloaded from here below: