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ProjectStrengthening Food Security by Ensuring Availability of Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - GCP/GLO/844/GER 2019
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No results found.Ensuring that appropriate genetic resources for food and agriculture with relevant traits are available and accessible for research and breeding is crucial to food security. At the same time, it is widely acknowledged that countries have the sovereign right to exploit their genetic resources, including the right to control and limit access to them and to claim benefits arising from their utilization. The project supported the convening of the International Workshop on Access and Benefit-Sharing for Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which assisted countries in identifying and raising awareness of the distinctive features and specific practices of the different subsectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture in the context of the “Elements to facilitate domestic implementation of access and benefit-sharing for different subsectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture”. The Workshop strengthened the strategic partnerships of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture with other instruments and organizations. -
DocumentIncorporating genetic diversity and indicators into statistics and monitoring of farmed aquatic species and their wild relatives 2017
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No results found.The FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, realizing that substantial production from aquaculture and capture fisheries is based on groups below the level of the species and that genetic information has a variety of uses in fishery management, requested FAO to undertake a thematic study to explore incorporating genetic diversity and indicators into statistics and monitoring of farmed aquatic species and their wild relatives. Information about aquatic genetic resources can be extremely useful to resource managers, policy-makers, private industry and the general public. Not only is genetic diversity the basic building block for selective breeding programmes in aquaculture and for natural populations to adapt to changing environments and evolve, but information on genetic diversity can also be used, inter alia, to help meet production and consumer demands, to prevent and diagnose disease, to trace fish and fish products in the production chain, to monitor impacts of alien species on native species, to differentiate cryptic species, to manage broodstock, and to design more effective conservation and species recovery programmes. However, the majority of resource managers and those government officials submitting information to FAO do not use or have sufficient access to information on aquatic genetic diversity of farmed species and their wild relatives. -
DocumentEvaluation of FAO’s work in Genetic Resources 2016
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No results found.Genetic resources for food and agriculture (GRFA) include the plant, animal, aquatic, microbial, forest and other genetic resources of relevance to agriculture, farming and food systems. GRFA are essential to global food production, especially considering the growth in population and consumption expected through 2050. They are the raw materials that farmers, herders, fishers, foresters, breeders (conventional as well as through biotechnology) and researche rs rely upon to improve the quality and the amount of food produced. In addition, GRFA provide the building blocks for developing new materials that are adapted to changing climates or novel environments and production demands. The evaluation sought to answer two overarching evaluation questions: i) How effectively has FAO guided policies and approaches to sustainable use of genetic resources, especially at country level? and ii) What impact has FAO’s technical and capacity devel opment work had on member countries and institutional stakeholders?
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