Biotech Updates

FAO Documents on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing Countries

May 28, 2010

The conference report of the Food and Agriculture Organization international technical conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing Countries (ABDC-10) held in Guadalajara, Mexico is now available online in five languages. In addition, are summary reports and presentations from a series of 27 parallel sessions. The conference aimed to discuss "application of biotechnologies across the different food and agricultural sectors in developing countries, in order to learn from the past and to chart a better course for developing countries to face the challenges of food insecurity, climate change and natural resource degradation."

The FAO Biotechnology website is at http://www.fao.org/biotech/index.asp