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UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/16

Reports on Collaborative Work on Biodiversity and Agriculture, Forests, and Biodiversity and Health

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/INF/32

Biofuels and Biodiversity: Further Information on the Work in Response to Decision X/37

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/INF/33

Report on Collaborative Work on Biodiversity and Agriculture

$32.1 million for agriculture biodiversity stewardship

2021-22 Budget confirms the Australian Government’s commitment to promoting biodiversity stewardship on agricultural land

'New' apple and pear varieties found in Wales

A total of 73 previously unrecorded varieties of apples and pears believed to be unique to Wales have been discovered by researchers. About 200 trees were DNA-tested in the two-year project to find, catalogue and preserve new varieties.

'Terrifying’: There’s a rapid loss of biodiversity that’s placing global food supplies at risk of ‘irreversible collapse’

A groundbreaking report by the United Nations highlighting the rapid, widespread loss of many of the world’s plant and animal species should be on the front page of every newspaper in the world, argued climate action and food access advocates on Friday.

10 pioneer-era apple types thought extinct found in US West

A team of retirees that scours the remote ravines and windswept plains of the Pacific Northwest for long-forgotten pioneer orchards has rediscovered 10 apple varieties that were believed to be extinct—the largest number ever unearthed in a single season by the non-profit Lost Apple Project.

119th Session of the Council of FAO

20 - 25 November 2000, Rome, Italy

11th International Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists of 2005

23 - 27 August 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark

11th International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

18 - 27 July 2003, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

11th session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITWG-AnGR/11) - Virtual Session

19 - 21 May 2021, Virtual

11th session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITWG-AnGR/11) at FAO

1 - 3 July 2020, Rome, Italy

11th session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITWG-PGRFA)

18 - 20 April 2023, Rome, Italy

12th Session Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Risk Assessment (JEMRA)

11 - 15 October 2021, Rome, Italy

13th IFOAM International Scientific Conference

25 August - 2 September 2000, Basel, Switzerland

13th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (FAO)

16 - 22 July 2011, Rome, Italy

14th IFOAM Organic World Congress 2002

21 - 24 August 2002, Victoria, Canada

14th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (FAO)

13 - 19 April 2013, Rome, Italy

15th International Symposium on Fertilizers and Fertilization for Sustainability in Agriculture: The First World meets the Third World, Challenges for the Future

27 - 30 September 2004, Pretoria, South Africa

15th World Forestry Congress 2022: "Building a Green, Healthy and Resilient Future with Forests"

2 - 6 May 2022, Coex, Seoul, Republic of Korea

16 foods that are good for you - and the planet

Agriculture is already one of the biggest contributors to global warming. The greenhouse gases released in the form of methane from cattle and rice farms, nitrous oxide from fertilized fields, and carbon dioxide from deforestation to make space for crops and livestock, add up to more emissions t ...

164th Session of the FAO Council

8 - 12 June 2020, Rome, Italy

165th session of the FAO Council

30 November - 4 December 2020, Rome, Italy

166th session of the FAO Council

26 - 30 April 2021, Rome, Italy

167th session of the FAO Council

19 July 2021, Rome, Italy

168th Session FAO Council

29 November - 3 December 2021, Rome, Italy

17th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

18 - 22 February 2019, Rome, Italy

18th Session Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)

27 September - 1 October 2021, Rome, Italy

19th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)

24 - 28 July 2023, Rome, Italy

19th Session of the Committee on Agriculture (COAG)

13 - 16 April 2005, Rome, Italy

19th Session of the FAO Committee on Agriculture (COAG)

12 - 15 April 2005, Rome, Italy

1st International Symposium on Biodiversity as a source of New Medicines

16 - 19 August 2001, Cali, Colombia

1st Meeting of the Panel of Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture

26 - 28 September 2000, Rome, Italy

1st World Congress of Agroforestry

27 June - 2 July 2004, Orlando, United States of America

2005 CGIAR Annual General Meeting

5 - 9 December 2005, Marrakech, Morocco

2008 International Day for Biological Diversity: “Biodiversity and Agriculture”

Reference: SCBD/OMG/DAINS/63046 (2008-039)
To: CBD National Focal Points

As the world prepares to celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD), I have the pleasure to inform you that all documentation related to this year’s celebrations of IBD, under the theme Biodiversity and Agriculture, is now available on the Secretariat’s website at: http://www ...

2020: This is the year to protect plant health!

The United Nations (U.N.) had many compelling reasons to declare 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). Consider just a few of them: Healthy plants are the foundation of all life on Earth. They make the oxygen we breathe and give us 80% of the food we eat. Plants sustain our live ...

2021 UN FOOD SYSTEMS PRE-SUMMIT

26 - 28 July 2021, Virtual, Rome, Italy

21st Session of the Technical Consultation among Regional Plant Protection Organizations

31 August - 4 September 2009, Kampala, Uganda

22 People and Organizations Working to Preserve Appalachia’s Biodiversity

This fall, Food Tank and The Crop Trust traveled throughout Appalachia to highlight and celebrate its unique food cultures and agricultural diversity. As part of a multi-year, multi-country #CropsInColor campaign, we focused on the role of apples, beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, and chili peppers ...

25th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission

30 June - 5 July 2003, Rome, Italy

27th International Conference on Animal Genetics

22 - 26 July 2000, Minneapolis, United States of America

2nd Session of FAO/WHO Global Forum of Food Safety Regulators

10 - 12 November 2004, Bangkok, Thailand

32nd Session Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission (APPPC) - FAO

6 - 10 September 2021, TBD

32nd Session of the FAO Conference

29 November - 10 December 2002, Rome, Italy

36th Biennial World Farmers' Congress

29 May - 4 June 2004, Washington D.C., United States of America

36th Session of the European Forestry Commission (in joint meeting with 69th Session of the UNECE Timber Committee) (FAO)

10 - 14 October 2011, Antalya, Türkiye

37th Session of the European Commission on Agriculture (ECA), 28th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe, and Regional CSO/NGO Consultation

16 - 20 April 2012, Baku, Azerbaijan

37th Session of the FAO Conference

25 June - 2 July 2011, Rome, Italy

38th Session of the FAO Conference

15 - 22 June 2013, Rome, Italy