FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Rome, Italy
15-23 May 1997

SUMMARY EDITIONS

Seventh Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
15-23 May 1996

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Second Extraordinary Session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
22-27 April 1996

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Fourth International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources
17-23 June 1996

Third Extraordinary Session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
9-13 December 1996

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COMMISSION ON GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE SEVENTH SESSION

Multimedia Information from the Seventh Session

Ulf Swenson (Sweden) discusses the importance and complexity of this meeting, the future of negotiations on the International Undertaking and the work needed to be done in the intersessional period.
Jos� Esquinas-Alcazar a) provides background to the meeting and the reasons for this session and frames the discussion; and b) his life-long involvement in the field of plant genetic resource policy.

Mr. Fernando Gerbasi (Venezuela), Chair of the Commission on Genetic Resources for
Food and Agriculture

Brad Fraleigh (Canada)

Tiffany Prather of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin team

The final day of negotiations at FAO Headquarters in Rome

David Cooper and the "ever-young" Clive Stannard of the CGRFA Secretariat

Representatives of the CBD Secretariat at the CGRFA-7