Report of the Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Forest Genetic Resources

Provisional Agenda

Provisional annotated agenda and timetable 

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

Status of preparation of The Second Report on the State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources 

Development of a new global information system on forest genetic resources

Access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources for food and agriculture: Review and outlook

“Digital sequence information” on genetic resources for food and agriculture: Innovation opportunities, challenges and implications

Climate change and genetic resources for food and agriculture

Review of the work on biotechnologies for the sustainable use and conservation of genetic resources for food and agriculture

Possible re-organization of the Commission’s future intersessional work

Statutes of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Forest Genetic Resources, and Members and Alternates Elected by the Commission at its Seventeenth Regular Session (English only)

Information note for participants

Draft survey of access and benefit-sharing country measures accommodating the distinctive features of genetic resources for food and agriculture and associated traditional knowledge (English only)

Inputs by Members on access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources for food and agriculture (multilingual)

FAO activities on climate change (English only)

The role of genetic resources for food and agriculture in climate change adaptation and mitigation (English only)

Recent developments in biotechnologies relevant to the characterization, sustainable use and conservation of genetic resources for food and agriculture (English only)