Rome, Italy
May, 2006
Source:
FAO-BiotechNews 3-2006
As part of a global survey that
FAO is carrying out to assess
plant breeding and related biotechnology capacity, draft reports
on national plant breeding and associated biotechnology surveys
are now available for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Jordan,
Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Macedonia and Zambia.
In addition, as part of the same
initiative, FAO organised a regional workshop on 11-12 April
2006 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, entitled "Assessing and designing
strategies to strengthen national plant breeding and related
biotechnology capacity in Central Asia", in collaboration with
the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the
Dry Areas (ICARDA).
For the workshop report, as well
as the national survey reports, see the "What's new" section of
http://apps3.fao.org/wiews/wiews.jsp or contact
elcio.guimaraes@fao.org
for more information.
The global survey is being carried
out to assist in designing strategies to strengthen national and
regional abilities to use plant genetic resources for food and
agriculture. |
