Strategic Plan and Multi-Year Programme of Work
The Commission’s work is guided by its Strategic Plan, which contains the Commission’s vision and mission statements, its goals and objectives as well as the Multi-Year Programme of Work (MYPOW). The MYPOW is a rolling ten-year work plan covering the totality of biodiversity for food and agriculture, including plant, animal, forest, aquatic, micro-organism and invertebrate genetic resources as well as cross-sectoral matters relevant to several or all components of biodiversity for food and agriculture, such as climate change food security and nutrition, access and benefit-sharing, targets and indicators, and digital sequence information.
| 19th Session (2023) | 20th Session (2025) | 21st Session (2026/2027) | 22nd Session (2028/2029) | 23rd Session (2030/2031) | |
| Animal genetic resources | Presentation of SoW AnGR-3 Review of GPA AnGR | ||||
| Aquatic genetic resources | Review of implementation of the GPA AqGR | Presentation of SoW AqGR 2 | Review of GPA AqGR | ||
| Forest genetic resources | Presentation of SoW FGR-2 | Review of GPA FGR | Review of implementation of GPA FGR | ||
| Micro-organisms and invertebrates | Dietary components of food/feed; food processing and agro-industrial processes | Review of work on MIGR | |||
| Plant genetic resources | Presentation of SoW PGR-3 | Review of Second GPA PGR | Review of WIEWS reporting tool | Review of implementation (Second) GPA PGR | |
| Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture | Follow-up to SoW BFA | Review and consider the work on BFA | Review of the FA BFA | Presentation of SoW BFA-2 | Follow-up to the SoW BFA-2 |
| Access and benefit-sharing | Effects of ABS measures on utilization and conservation of GRFA | Update of compilation of ABS country measures | Review of work on ABS | ||
| Biotechnologies | Review of the work on biotechnologies for conservation and sustainable use of GRFA | ||||
| Digital sequence information | Consider the use of DSI on GRFA and the potential implications for conservation, sustainable use and ABS of GRFA | Recent developments on DSI and their potential implications for conservation, sustainable use and ABS of GRFA | Recent developments on DSI and their potential implications for conservation, sustainable use and ABS of GRFA | Review of the work on DSI and the potential implications for conservation, sustainable use and ABS of GRFA | |
| Climate change | Review of draft questions on climate change and GRFA | Summary of questionnaire responses | Review of revised Voluntary Guidelines | Review of work on climate change and GRFA | |
| Nutrition and Health | Review of work on GRFA and nutrition and health | Review of work on GRFA and nutrition and health | |||
New and emerging issues*) | |||||
| Management | Progress report/review of the Strategic Plan | Progress report on implementation of the Strategic Plan; SDGs | Progress report/review of the Strategic Plan |