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Daily Reports
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced a summary report of the “Special Information Seminar” and a summary and analysis from CGRFA-12. To download our reports, please click below on the HTML or PDF icons. |
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 Twelfth Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
17 & 19-23 October 2009 | UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Headquarters, Rome, Italy |
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Highlights for Monday, 19 October 2009
The twelfth regular session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA-12) opened on Monday, 19 October, at the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome, Italy. Delegates elected the meeting’s chair and vice-chairs, adopted the agenda and timetable, and considered agenda items relating to the multi-year programme of work (MYPOW), including the cross-sectoral matter of access and benefit-sharing (ABS) for GRFA, and the Commission’s mode of operation, namely the draft rules of procedure.
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| L-R: View of the opening dais with Antonio Taveras, FAO Legal Office; Shivaji Pandey, FAO; Ichiro Nomura, Assistant Director-General, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of FAO; Alexander Müller, Assistant Director-General, Natural Resources Management and Environment Department of FAO; Bert Visser, Commission Chair (the Netherlands); Dan Leskien, Alvaro Toledo, and Richard Laing, CGRFA Secretariat. |
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| L-R: Modesto Fernández (Cuba), in consultation with Bert Visser, CGRFA-11 Chair (the Netherlands); Dan Leskien, CGRFA Secretariat. |
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| L-R: The dais with Chair Javad Mozafari Hashjin (Iran); Dan Leskien, Alvaro Toledo, and Richard Laing, CGRFA Secretariat. |
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| View of participants in plenary. |
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| Bioversity International banner on Agricultural Biodiversity. |
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| FAO banners on Food Security in the atrium. |
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| Tile artwork donated by Tunisia depicting an olive harvest. |
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| Pedro Andrade, Brazil |
Emily Collins, Australia |
Ali Abdulla Al-Shurai, Yemen |
Ylva Tilander, Sweden |
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FAO Resources
 CRGFA-12 website
CRGFA-12 programme
Programme of the Special Information Seminar
Side Events
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of Third Session of the Governing Body (GB 3) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR), 1-5 June 2009, Tunis, Tunisia
IISD RS coverage of ITPGR GB-2, 29 October - 2 November 2007, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of First International Technical Conference on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, 3-7 September 2007, Interlaken, Switzerland
IISD RS summary and analysis of CGRFA-11, 11-15 June 2007, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS summary report of the Special Event on “Emerging Issues in the Management of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Towards a Multi-Year Programme of Work,” 9 June 2007, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS archive of CGRFA and ITPGR meetings
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