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Agricultural biotechnologies in developing countries: Options and opportunities in crops, forestry, livestock, fisheries and agro-industry to face the challenges of food insecurity and climate change (ABDC-10)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ruane, John Sonnino, A. Mart́ınez, Vı́ctor Murphy, Daniel J. Montfort, Nuria Alba Bennadji, Zohra |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | The scope of each regional session is to address the potential role of biotechnologies for agricultural development in the region and to cover the entire range of biotechnologies across all the food and agricultural sectors and not just to focus on any one aspect. The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region Parallel Session of the ABDC-10 will focus in two major pillars of such endeavor. First, it is necessary to assess which biotechnologies are already available and suited for application to food/feed crop production and their status in the Region. The creation, screening and selection of new or “orphan” genetic variation in the present production and management systems considering also sustainable crop production intensification and climate change is a must. This analysis may be focused in smallholders and family agriculture to consider national and/or sub regional biotechnology institutional capacity for R&D and on-farm participatory plant breeding programmes issues including regional and sub regional operating networks. There are key unsolved critical problems as biotic and biotic stresses, genetic base narrowing and yield gap, nutritional enhancement and sustainable and environmental friendly crop production that are of first order consideration. Second, and not last, the parallel session will need to consider the needed biosafety regulations and the corresponding perspectives, needs and actions to strengthening at national level. As countries differ in their biological diversity they harbor (some are mega-diverse), the size and suitability of agricultural areas, and the balance between agro-ecosystems and protected ecosystems, these facts give the region its rich and diversified character at the same time they demand particular environmental considerations for each particular case, as a result, different environment protecting goals will reflect on biosafety criteria. In particular, the parallel session may focus in the need for harmonization and coordination efforts on biosafety regulations. The on-going FAO and REDBIO sub regional project TCP/RLA/3109: “Development of reference technical tools for Biosafety Management in Extended Mercosur Countries,” is a critical example for national capacity reinforcement. Harmonization also entails the recognition of areas in which work is still needed to achieve the desired status. The set up of the Latin America and the Caribbean parallel session have been coordinated by REDBIO/FAO Network, IICA and The REDBIO International Foundation. For the perspective of the crops sector, two background documents have been prepared as follow: |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/abdc/documents/iicaredbio.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
