Louise Fresco, Assistant-Director General, FAO Agriculture Department gave a presentation on The future of agriculture: Challenges for environment, health and safety regulation of pesticides to the OECD Working Group on Pesticides on 4 February 2002, Paris. Highlights of the presentation, which also covered the role of modern technology, especially GMOs, are available at http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/oecd.pdf (4 pages) or contact FAO to request a copy.

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