SEARCA and Partners to Conduct Regional Media Workshop on Biotechnology and Climate Change
July 15, 2011| |
To keep media practitioners in the Southeast Asian region abreast about agricultural biotechnology and its products, SEARCA will co-organize a regional media workshop focusing on biotechnology and its role in climate change. The workshop will be held on 20-22 July 2011 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The workshop with the theme Status, Impacts and Future Prospects of Agri-biotechnology in a Changing Climate: A Regional Workshop for Media Practitioners also aims to enhance the capacities of the Southeast Asian media practitioners for accurate, scientific, and factual reporting about biotech products, particularly genetically modified crops.
Food security, public and private efforts in the development of biotech crops, and the media's significant role in the public opinion of biotechnology are among the topics to be tackled in the three-day workshop. A visit to laboratory facilities and field trials for biotech crops in the Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development (ICABIOGRAD) in Bogor will also be conducted during the event.
The media practitioners will also take part in a writeshop to exercise accurate and factual biotech reporting. The activity is co-organized with SEAMEO Regional Center for Tropical Biology (BIOTROP), International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II (ABPSII) and the Indonesia Biotechnology Information Center (IndoBIC); and supported by Crop Life Asia (CLA).
For more information about this event, you may contact SEARCA Biotechnology Information Center at bic@agri.searca.org.
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