The latest edition of the State of Food and Agriculture, one of FAO`s main publications, providing an annual report on current developments affecting world agriculture, has just been published. The report comes in 3 parts, with parts II and III dedicated to a "World and regional review: facts and figures" and a statistical annex respectively. The first part, entitled Agricultural biotechnology: meeting the needs of the poor?, deals with the potential for agricultural biotechnology to address the needs of the world`s poor and food-insecure. It comprises 9 chapters grouped under three main headings: framing the debate; the evidence so far; and making biotechnology work for the poor. See a FAO press release (in Arabic, English, French and Spanish) at http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2004/41714/index.html, download the document from http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y5160e/y5160e00.htm or contact [email protected] for more information.

11/06/2004