Biotechnologies for plant conservation and use - A school play

FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division has just published "Biotechnology tools for conservation and use of plants: A ...more

Biosafety within a biosecurity framework - Consultation report

From 28 February to 3 March 2006, FAO organised an expert consultation on "Biosafety within a biosecurity framework: Contributing ...more

Edouard Saouma Award 2006-2007

At the biennial FAO Conference, the Edouard Saouma Award is given to a national or regional institution which, in the course of ...more

Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources

Adopted by 109 country delegations at the International Technical Conference on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and ...more

REDBIO 2007 news stories

On 22-26 October 2007, the VI Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Agricultural Biotechnology (REDBIO 2007) was held in Vina ...more

Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture

"Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture", a 664-page book edited by D. ...more

Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling - 29th Session

The 29th Session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling takes place on 10-14 March 2008 in Budapest, Hungary. ...more

Cartagena Protocol: COP-MOP/4

The 4th meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/4) takes place on 12-16 May 2008 in Bonn, Germany, ...more

Cartagena Protocol: Liability and redress

The 4th meeting of the ad hoc Open-ended Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the Context of ...more

Launch of the FAO Biotechnology website in Russian

The FAO Biotechnology website was originally launched in 2000 in the English language and expanded in 2001 to include Arabic, ...more

Launch of FAO-BiotechNews-Ar

The FAO Working Group on Biotechnology has just launched FAO-BiotechNews-Ar, an e-mail newsletter providing updates of news and ...more

FAO Director-General's speech at M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

On 7 August 2007, the FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf delivered the Foundation Day Lecture on 'A world without hunger' at the ...more

Bioenergy and agricultural biotechnologies

On 12 October 2007, a half-day seminar on "The role of agricultural biotechnologies for production of bioenergy in developing ...more

International Year of the Potato 2008

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2008 as the International Year of the Potato (IYP) and FAO is leading its ...more

Fighting the cassava mosaic disease

A recent FAO news story is dedicated to the spread of the cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and the efforts made to develop ...more

Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter

Issue 150 (June 2007) of the Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter is now available on the web, including e.g. an article about the ...more

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Molecular marker applications in crop genetics and breeding
31 March 2008 - 11 April 2008

Organised by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), with support from India's Department ...more

10th International Barley Genetics Symposium
5 April 2008 - 10 April 2008

Organised by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and co-s...more

International symposium on biotechnology
4 May 2008 - 8 May 2008

Organised by the Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax on behalf of the International Centre of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology an...more

Introduction to biosafety for the environmental release of GM crops: Evaluation of scientific data and risk assessment dossiers
19 May 2008 - 23 May 2008

A workshop organised by the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in collaboration with the Italian Minis...more

International symposium on induced mutations in higher plants.
12 August 2008 - 14 August 2008

Organised by the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, this will be the 8th in its symposium seri...more

The Strategic Framework for FAO 2000-2015

Medium Term Plan 2004-2009

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