Aquatic biodiversity: underpinning aquatic food security

Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Aquatic Genetic Resources

Description

The Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will be held from 21-23 February 2023. The meeting will be conducted in person. The Session will be convened under the Regular Programme of the Organization and will have interpretation in all UN languages

It is intended to hold the Session in-person at FAO headquarters. However, should the conditions prevailing from the COVID-19 pandemic at the time of the Session prohibit physical meetings, the Session will be held virtually on the same dates.

The Working Group was established, on an ad hoc basis, by the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at its Fifteenth Regular Session in January 2015 and established as a regular Working Group at its Seventeenth Session in 2019. Issues addressed by the Fourth Session of the Working Group will include:

  • a follow up to the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; and
  • the progress with the development of indicators for monitoring the status of aquatic genetic resources;

The last Regular Session of the Commission also requested the Working Group to discuss:

  • the role of aquatic genetic resources in mitigation of and adaptation to climate change;
  • the access and benefit-sharing for aquatic genetic resources; and
  • “digital sequence information” and potential implications for the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources.

Report of the Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh)

Working documents

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/1

Election of Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson(s) and Rapporteur

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/2/Rev.1

Provisional agenda

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/2 Add.1

Provisional annotated agenda and timetable

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/3/Rev.2

Status of the implementation of the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Aquatic Genetic Resources

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/4/Rev.2

Monitoring the implementation of the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/5

Climate change and genetic resources for food and agriculture

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/6

Access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources for food and agriculture

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/7

Digital sequence information and genetic resources for food and agriculture

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/8

Strategic Plan for the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Review and update

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

Information documents

CGRFA-WG-AqGR-4/23/1/Inf.1

Statutes of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Aquatic Genetic Resources for food and agriculture, and Members and Alternates Elected by the Commission at its Eighteenth Regular Session

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/2/Inf.1

List of Documents

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/3/Inf.1

Outline of guidelines on genetic management in stocking programmes

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/3/Inf.2

Outline of guidelines for ex situ in vitro gene banking of aquatic species

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/3/Inf.3

Provisional list of terms for inclusion in a glossary for aquatic genetic resources for food and agriculture

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/3/Inf.4

Report of the expert workshop on “Incorporating information on wild relatives of aquaculture species into an information system for aquatic genetic resources”

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/3/Inf.5

Report of the Thirty-fifth Session of the Committee on Fisheries

Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/3/Inf.6

Report of the Eleventh Session of the COFI Sub-Committee on Aquaculture

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/4/Inf.1

Draft indicators for monitoring the implementation of the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

 

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/5/Inf.1

FAO’s work on climate change

 

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/6/Inf.1

Access and benefit-sharing and genetic resources for food and agriculture: typology of country measures

 

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/6/Inf.2

Draft questionnaire on the implications of access and benefit-sharing measures for the use and exchange of genetic resources for food and agriculture and for benefit-sharing

CGRFA/WG-AqGR-4/23/7/Inf.1

The role of digital sequence information in the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture: opportunities and challenges

 

Other documents

Genetic management of Indian major carps

Lessons from two decades of tilapia genetic improvement in Africa

Proactive approach proved key to survival for the Australasian Pacific oyster industry