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Daily Web Coverage
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced web coverage and a summary report from the Special Information Seminar on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture. In addition, IISD RS has produced daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary and analysis from CGRFA 14. To download our reports, click the HTML or PDF icons below. |
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Special Information Seminar on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture: Taking Stock for the Future
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Fourteenth Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA 14) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
13 and 15-19 April 2013 | FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy
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Highlights for Saturday, 13 April 2013
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Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
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The special information seminar on “Biodiversity for food and agriculture: taking stock for the future” was held at the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy, on Saturday, 13 April 2013, immediately prior to the fourteenth regular session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA), held from 15-19 April.
The morning panel discussion addressed the state of the world’s biodiversity for food and agriculture, including presentations on related global environmental challenges, the economic value of biodiversity for food and agriculture, human livelihoods and the importance of global assessments.
In the afternoon, a panel discussion under the title “The contribution of biodiversity for food and agriculture: taking stock” addressed the specificities, challenges and achievements of different components of biodiversity for food and agriculture, including animal, plant, forest and aquatic genetic resources, as well as issues related to information on biodiversity for food and agriculture, and indicators. Discussion then focused on challenges and opportunities for biodiversity for food and agriculture and the production of the report on the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture. |
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From L-R: Facilitator Toby Hodgkin, Coordinator, Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research; Dan Gustafson, Deputy Director-General, FAO; Maryam Rahmanian, Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (CENESTA); CGRFA and Seminar Chair Brad Fraleigh, Canada; Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); Pavan Sukhdev, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB); and Robert Watson, University of East Anglia
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FAO resources
 Special Information Seminar on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture programme
CGRFA 14 website and documents
CGRFA 14 provisional annotated agenda and time-table
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Special Information Seminar on Climate Change and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: State of Knowledge, Risks and Opportunities and CGRFA 13, 16 and 18-22 July 2011, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of the Fourth Session of the Governing Body (GB 4) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR), 14-18 March, Bali, Indonesia
IISD RS coverage of the Information Seminar on Policy Arrangements for Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) for Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and CGRFA 12, 19-23 October 2009, FAO Headquarters, Rome Italy
IISD RS coverage of ITPGR GB 3, 1-5 June 2009, Tunis, Tunisia
IISD RS coverage of ITPGR GB 2, 29 October - 2 November 2007, UN Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of the First International Technical Conference on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, 3-7 September 2007, Interlaken, Switzerland
IISD RS coverage of CGRFA 11, 11-15 June 2007, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of ITPGR GB 1, 12-16 June 2006, Madrid, Spain
IISD RS archive of meetings on Commission on Genetic Resources (CGRFA) and ITPGRFA
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