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The consultations, organized by the Berlin-based think tank for sustainability, TMG Research, took place virtually over the course of three days to discuss and further develop a paper with key messages on agroecology as a systemic approach to climate change adaptation for food security and rural livelihoods.
Climate Resilience through the Right to Food: Perspectives on the UN Food Systems Summit
In the first of a two-part series, stakeholders discussed the right to food as an entry point for transforming current unequal and unsustainable development trends.
FAO at COP 26
These COP 26 side events aimed to reinforce FAO’s commitment to supporting countries in the climate negotiations, particularly through enhancing action related to food and agriculture, ecosystems and biodiversity, and working with countries to access climate finance.
Highlights and images for 19 September 2022
9th Session of the ITPGRFA Governing Body
9th Session of the ITPGRFA Governing Body
Meeting at a crucial moment for the future of the Treaty, parties relaunched negotiations on measures to enhance the functioning of the Treaty’s Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing. Parties further addressed farmers’ rights and issues related to “digital sequence information/genetic sequence data” (data derived from genetic resources that is often shared freely online) that could undermine the benefit-sharing regime.
Highlights and images for 18 February 2019
17th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Highlights for Monday, 18 February 2019
Delegates gather in plenary for the start of CGRFA 17
Τhe seventeenth session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA 17) opened today at the Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN in Rome, ItalyDelegates discussed the following issues:
The Commission’s work in raising awareness of the role of genetic resources for food and agriculture (GRFA) for food security and nutrition and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
Explanatory notes of distinctive features of GRFA use in different sub-sectors intended to complement the Elements on ABS in GRFA sub-sectors;
“Digital sequence information (DSI)” on GRFA; and
The role of GRFA in mitigation of and adaptation to climate change.
For more details on the day's events and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB).
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the 17th Session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
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Opening and Welcome
View of the dais during the opening and welcome
Kent Nnadozie, Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR)
Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, Climate and Natural Resources, FAO
Irene Hoffmann, CGRFA Secretary, FAO
David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary
Morning Plenary
View of the dais during the morning plenary
Dan Leskien, CGRFA Secretariat
William Wigmore, CGRFA 17 Chair
Aulikki Hulmi, Finland
Cesar Tapia, Ecuador
Deidre Januarie, Namibia
Park Chee-Hyurng, Republic of Korea
Catherine Karr-Colque, US
Mohammad Hossein Emadi, Iran
Thanawat Tiensin, Thailand
Delegates follow various presentations
Afternoon Plenary
Delegates during the afternoon plenary
Michèle Marcotte, Canada
Renata Negrelly Nogueira, Brazil
Michael Halewood, CGIAR Consortium
Antonio González, International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty
Maribell Alvarez Mora, Costa Rica
Daniele Manzella, ITPGR Secretariat
Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Alwin Kopŝe, Switzerland
Evening Reception
Delegates gather for an evening reception
Around the Venue
Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, Climate and Natural Resources, FAO, and René Castro-Salazar, Assistant Director-General, Department of Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water, FAO
Delegates speak informally between sessions
Dan Leskien, CGRFA Secretariat
Mohamad Walid Tawil, Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands
Delegates gather at the start of the meeting
Members of the FAO Secretariat
Artwork from Angola on display in the corridors
Summary report 18–22 February 2019
17th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Daily report for 20 September 2022
9th Session of the ITPGRFA Governing Body
Highlights and images for 21 September 2022
9th Session of the ITPGRFA Governing Body