Biotech Updates

FAO E-Mail Conference on Biotechnology and Bioenergy

October 24, 2008

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Biotechnology Forum will be devoting its next e-mail conference to the potential role that agricultural biotechnologies can play for production of bioenergy in developing countries. The conference will take place from 10 November to 7 December 2008 and is being organized in collaboration with the FAO Working Group on Bioenergy. The conference covers biotechnology applications for first-generation and second-generation biofuels and, to a lesser degree, for biogas production and for biodiesel production from microalgae.

Visit http://www.fao.org/biotech/forum.asp for details on how to join the forum. Information on background document is available at the Document Reminder section of this e-newsletter.