The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has published the 6th issue of Biosafety Protocol News. The 23-page issue focuses on Public awareness and participation: Experiences and lessons learned from recent initiatives and contains eight contributions. One of them is on Involving rural communities in regulatory and decision-making processes regarding GMOs: Overview of the outcomes of an FAO e-mail conference on public participation by J. Ruane from the FAO Working Group on Biotechnology. See http://www.cbd.int/doc/newsletters/bpn/bpn-06.pdf or contact [email protected] for more information.

25/01/2010