The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has just produced a report for the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) entitled "Africa Environment Outlook 2 Our Environment, Our Wealth". The 542-page report provides a comprehensive assessment of environmental state-and-trends, and the implications of this for human well-being and development. The report is divided into five sections, namely environment for development; environmental state-and-trends: 20-year retrospective; emerging challenges; outlook; and policy opportunities. One of the four chapters in the `emerging challenges` section is devoted to genetically modified crops. See the report, fact sheets and information materials (press release, video, posters, Power Point presentation) at http://www.unep.org/dewa/africa/aeo2_launch/index.asp or contact [email protected] for more information.

09/07/2006