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World Food Day 2004: The theme of this year is "Biodiversity for Food Security"

16 October 2004, Rome, Italy

International Agroenviron-2004 Symposium entitled "Role of Multi-purpose Agriculture in Sustainable Global Environment"

20 - 24 October 2004, Udine, Italy

CGIAR Annual General Meeting 2004

25 - 29 October 2004, Mexico City, Mexico

World Rice Research Conference

4 - 7 November 2004, Tokyo and Tsukuba, Japan

International Pre-Conference on Water for Food and Ecosystems: Make it happen?

4 - 6 November 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

VI Taller Internacional sobre la Utilización de los Sistemas Silvopastoriles para la Producción Animal

8 - 12 November 2004, Holguín, Cuba

Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (10th Session)

8 - 12 November 2004, Rome, Italy

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

10 - 12 November 2004, Bangkok, Thailand

SCBD commemorates FAO's World Food Day 2004 - "Biodiversity for Food Security".

Executive Secretary Hamdallah Zedan welcomes the initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to dedicate World Food Day 2004 to the theme of "biodiversity for food security.”

Inter-Parliamentary Union unanimously adopts a resolution affirming the role of parliaments in preserving biological diversity.

In its 111th session the Interparliamentary Union unanimously adopted a resolution that affirmed the role of parliaments in preserving biological diversity, focusing on a number of key areas of the work of the CBD

Council of FAO (127th Session)

22 - 27 November 2004, Rome, Italy

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/10/14

Agricultural biodiversity: Further development of the international initiative for the conservation and sustainable use of soil biodiversity

Committee on Agriculture - Special Session

17 December 2004, Geneva, Switzerland

Recommendation X/9

Options for a cross-cutting initiative on biodiversity for food and nutrition

Recommendation X/10

Agricultural biodiversity: further development of the International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Soil Biodiversity

The Way Forward to Strengthen National Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Capacity

9 - 11 February 2005, Rome, Italy

Reference: SCBD/EDM/DC/47604 (2005-020)
To: All CBD National Focal Points, and to representatives of observers

The purpose of the present notification is to invite Parties and Governments to nominate experts to participate in a consultation to be held in conjunction with the 32nd session of the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition in March 2005.

Consultation on the Cross-Cutting Initiative on Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition

12 - 13 March 2005, Brasilia, Brazil

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

12 - 15 April 2005, Rome, Italy

19th Session of the Committee on Agriculture (COAG)

13 - 16 April 2005, Rome, Italy

WTO Committee on Agriculture - Special Session

19 April 2005, Geneva, Switzerland

WTO Committee on Agriculture

2 June 2005, Geneva, Switzerland

Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture

5 - 7 June 2005, Montpellier, France

International Congress: "The Global Feed and Food Congress"

11 - 13 July 2005, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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

23 - 27 August 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark

Third World Congress on Conservation Agriculture

3 - 7 October 2005, Nairobi, Kenya

International Workshop: "Interactions of Bacteria with the Rice Plant"

10 - 12 October 2005, Treviso, Italy

Meeting on Observational Priorities for Conservation and Biodiversity

3 - 4 November 2005, Washington, United States of America

Transgenic Crops: Production, Evaluation and Applications

7 - 18 November 2005, New Delhi, India

FAO Council (129th Session)

16 - 18 November 2005, Rome, Italy

FAO Council (130th Session)

28 November 2005, Rome, Italy

Workshop on Biosphere Reserves, World Heritage Sites, and Other Natural Protected Areas: Production and Export Economics

28 - 30 November 2005, Cairo, Egypt

International Conference Environment Friendly Agricultural Products and their Export from Egypt and Africa

29 - 30 November 2005, Cairo, Egypt

2005 CGIAR Annual General Meeting

5 - 9 December 2005, Marrakech, Morocco

Open-ended WG on the Rules of Procedure and the Financial Rules of the Governing Body, Compliance and the Funding Strategy

14 - 17 December 2005, Rome, Italy

International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development

7 - 10 March 2006, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Experts Meeting on Sustainable rural development

2 - 3 May 2006, Bari, Italy

Small and Medium Forest Enterprise Development for Poverty Reduction: Opportunities and Challenges in Globalizing Markets

23 - 25 May 2006, Turrialba, Costa Rica

First International Stakeholder Meeting of the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research

29 - 31 May 2006, Italy

Message from Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf at Platform for Agro-biodiversity Research Stakeholder Meeting, 29-31 May, 2006, Rome, Italy

I am very honoured to have this opportunity to address close collaboration between IPGRI and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. It is regrettable that I am prevented from attending this important meeting at the launch of the platform, which addresses one of the most impo ...

Statement by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at it first session

Statement by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture at it first session

At its sixth meeting, in 2002, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity recognized that the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will have an important role for the conservation and sustainable utilization of agricultural biologi ...

First Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

12 - 16 June 2006, Madrid, Spain

Speech by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity at Congrès de l’Ordre des Agronomes du Québec

Agriculture and agricultural biodiversity are subjects of enormous importance to the Convention on Biological Diversity and indeed to the survival of life on earth

New Initiatives to Conserve and Protect Earth’s Agricultural Biodiversity for Future Generations.

New Initiatives to Conserve and Protect Earth’s Agricultural Biodiversity for Future Generations.

Norway has launched the Svalbard International Seed Vault, which will act as a safety net in case seeds already stored in commercial gene banks are destroyed, or are decimated in a global catastrophe. Norway’s “Noah’s Ark” project aims to safeguard crop diversity by storing about 1.5 billion se ...

Additional Information for the In-depth Review of Expanded Programme of Work on Forest Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/STTM/RK/JM/55239 (2006-078)
To: all CBD National Focal Points

Invitation to submit any information on the implementation of the expanded programme of work on forest biological diversity, additional to that requested in the third national report.

Additional Information for In-depth Review of Implementation of Programme of Work on Agricultural Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/STTM/RK/JM/54744 (2006-079)
To: all CBD National Focal Points

Submission, on a voluntary basis, of any information additional to that in the third national report, which is considered useful for the in-depth review. The submission can include national experience in the implementation of the programme of work as well as an evaluation of the effectiveness o ...

Foire Agri-Culture Internationale

24 August - 2 September 2006, Kpalime, Togo

Inter-Agency Support group on Indigenous Issues Annual Meeting (IASG)

15 - 18 September 2006, Rome, Italy