Articles in the July 27, 2012 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

NEWS

Global
• The Role of Conservation in Reaching CBD's Targets
• FAO, CGIAR to Work Together for Stronger Agricultural Research

Africa
• CIFOR Paper Calls for Sustainable Palm Oil Dev't in Cameroon
• Kenya's Biosafety Authority Urges Calm Over GM Labeling Regulations
• GM Banana in Uganda in Five Years?
• Resilient Crops Help Somalia Exit Famine

Americas
• Molecular Markers for Nematode Resistance Breeding
• Helping Plants Fight Parasitic Vines
• Research Grants to Improve Biofuel Feedstock and Energy Production
• NCBiotech Launches Crops Commercialization Center
• Bright Possibility for Flood Tolerant Soybeans
• CIP Attempts to Identify RNA Silencing Code to Avoid Plant Viruses
• Clemson University Develops New Oat Variety

Asia and the Pacific
• Indian President Vows to Eliminate Poverty and Hunger
• U.S. Joint Initiatives in Modern Agric Technology in Bangladesh
• Bangladesh to Benefit from Wheat Variety Tolerant to Ug99
• Pioneer Indonesia Unveils New Hybrid Corn

Europe
• Defra Presents Green Food Project Conclusions
• Survey Shows Increasing Support for GM Crop Research
• Sequencing Technology Helps Reveal What Plant Genomes Really Encode
• EC Chief Scientific Advisor: GMOs Not Riskier than Conventional Counterparts

Research
• Scientists Find Potential Solution for Inbreeding Depression
• Fusion Gene Transformation in Insect Resistant/Herbicide Tolerant Tobacco
• Scientists Identify and Characterize Cotton Boll Wall-Specific Promoters for Future GM Cotton Varieties

Announcements
• The 12th International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium
• IARI Invites Nomination for Training Course on "Seed Quality Assurance"
• Country Biotech Facts and Trends
• 2nd International Conference on Biotechnology in Africa: Science and Regulation

Document Reminders
• Book on Strategies for African Agriculture
• Valuing New Random GM Traits: The Case of Drought Tolerant Wheat
• IFPRI's Brief 11 - Delivering Nutrients Widely Through Biofortification: Building on Orange Sweet Potato
• IFIC Biotech Videos on Food Biotechnology

FAO, CGIAR to Work Together for Stronger Agricultural Research

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), two of the world's premier institutions in terms of ensuring agricultural sustainability and food security, have signed a Declaration of Intent on July 12 to establish "a strong and long-lasting collaborative effort building on the different institutional strengths of both organizations". The Declaration was signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Carlos Pérez del Castillo, CGIAR Consortium Board Chair.

FAO and the CGIAR Consortium will work together on projects and programs under a future framework agreement. One particular area of cooperation involves making CGIAR's research results and technologies available to small-scale farmers among others.

View the original article at http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/151733/icode/.

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This article is part of the Crop Biotech Update, a weekly summary of world developments in agri-biotech for developing countries, produced by the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology, International Service for the Aquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications SEAsiaCenter (ISAAA)

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