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LinksFAO is a United Nations (UN) organisation with
187 member countries plus one member organisation, the European Community. Here, we provide links to a small number
of selected websites providing regularly-updated information related to agricultural biotechnology. The websites
include those from Convention on Biological Diversity (Secretariat hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme) and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) Science & Technology for Development (an initiative of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) United Nations Environment Programme-Global Environment Facility (UNEP-GEF) biosafety projects Working Group on Genetically Modified Organisms of the Aarhus convention (i.e. the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters) World Health Organization B) Non-UN Inter-governmental Organisations International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Biotechnology and Biosafety webpages C) The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) CGIAR and Agricultural Biotechnology Africa Rice Center (WARDA) CGIAR Challenge Programmes Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT) International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Bioversity International International Rice Research Institute WorldFish Center
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