Food & Agriculture Report

FAO has just published an Issue Paper entitled “Gene editing and agrifood systems”. Developed by a team of authors with oversight from the Office of the Chief Scientist, this 86-page document is organized in the following six chapters: introduction; advances in plant and animal breeding; gene editing - potential hazards, [...]

The Twelfth Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture take places at FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy on 18-20 January 2023. Several biotechnology-related items are on the agenda for this meeting. These include ‘Monitoring the diversity of animal genetic resources for food and [...]

On 7-19 December 2022, Part II of the UN Biodiversity Conference took place in Montreal, Canada, including the Fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 15); the Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving [...]

The Ninth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture took place in New Delhi, India on 19-24 September 2022. The report of the meeting, as well as the 17 resolutions adopted, are now available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian [...]

On 17-21 October 2022, the first FAO Science and Innovation Forum took place at FAO headquarters, highlighting the centrality of science, technology and innovation for transforming agrifood systems. It was organized together with the World Food Forum and the Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum. One of the Science and Innovation Forum’s sessions [...]