The FAO international technical conference on 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 will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico on 1-4 March 2010. ABDC-10 is co-organized by FAO and the Government of Mexico. The ABDC-10 website has now been launched, providing comprehensive information about the conference, including its background, rationale, scope and objectives, expected outputs, organisation and funding, steering committee as well as the FAO documents currently being prepared for the conference. See http://www.fao.org/biotech/abdc (in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for more information.

19/06/2009