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Biodiversity Policy & Practice

Special Event on Food Security and Genetic Diversity
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Fifteenth session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA 15) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

16 and 19-23 January 2015 | FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy

Daily Web Coverage
Highlights for Tuesday, 20 January 2015
CGRFA
CGRFA 15 delegates met in plenary throughout the day to consider cross-sectoral issues, including: the application of biotechnologies for the sustainable conservation and use of genetic resources for food and agriculture (GRFA); climate change and GRFA; biodiversity and nutrition; and access and benefit-sharing (ABS) with regard to GRFA. Delegates also discussed: animal GRFA, including preparation of the second Report on the State of the World’s Animal GRFA (SoW-AnGR), and implementation of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources (GPA-AnGR); and forest GR, including follow-up to the GPA for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest GR (GPA-FGR).
A view of Rome near FAO
A poster on the diversity of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture

Morning Session

Panel (L-R): Anna Asfaw, CGRFA Secretariat; Damiano Luchetti, CGRFA Secretariat; Dan Leskien, CGRFA Secretariat; Linda Collette, CGRFA Secretary; and Amar Tahiri, CGFRA 15 Chair

Gemedo Dalle Tussie, Ethiopia
Bert Visser, the Netherlands

Larissa Maria Lima Costa, Brazil
Santiago Bertoni, Paraguay
Roxana Blasett, Argentina

Bounthong Bouahom, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Axel Villalobos Cortés, Panama

Andrew Mushita, Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE)
Antonio Gonzalez, International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC)

Delegates attend a side event on 'Mainstreaming biodiversity for improved human nutrition and well-being: moving from global initiatives to local action'

Delegates listen to views on farmers’ seed systems in national seed policy

Afternoon Session

Delegates gather for the afternoon session

Zoltan Kalman, Hungary, speaking on behalf of the European Regional Group
Julian Jackson, UK
Erdenejargal Tumurbaatar, Mongolia, speaking on behalf of Asia

Eduardo Mansur, Director, Forest Assessment, Management and Conservation Division, FAO
Pierre Bouillon, Chair of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Forest Genetic Resources

Matthew Worrell, Australia
Nina Sæther, Norway
Genya Dana, US

Judy Loo, Bioversity International
Akio Yamamoto, Japan

Around the Venue


Dan Leskien, CGRFA Secretariat, shares a moment with Amar Tahiri, CGFRA 15 Chair
Delegates in plenary







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Daily Web Coverage
Related Links
FAO Resources

*CGRFA 15 Website and Documents

*CGRFA 15 Provisional Annotated Agenda and Time-table

*Programme of the Special Seminar: Towards The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture


IISD RS Resources

*IISD RS summary and analysis of the Fifth session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR), 24-28 September 2013, Muscat, Oman (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)

*IISD RS coverage of the Special Information Seminar on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture: Taking Stock for the Future and CGRFA 14, 13 and 15-19 April 2013, Rome, Italy

*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

bulletIISD RS coverage of ITPGR GB 4, 14-18 March 2011, 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, 17 and19-23 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

*BIODIVERSITY-L - A Mailing List for News on Biodiversity and Wildlife Policy

*Biodiversity Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of UN and Intergovernmental Activities Addressing International Biodiversity Policy

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