Biotech Updates

FAO Agri-biotech Report AVailable Online

March 26, 2010

The Report of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) technical conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing Countries (ABDC-10) in Guadalajara, Mexico on 1-4 March 2010 is now available at http://www.fao.org/biotech/abdc/.

The conference discussed the application of biotechnologies across the different food and agricultural sectors in developing countries. Lessons of the past were analyzed and options identified to face the challenges of food insecurity, climate change and natural resource degradation..