Year of publication 2002

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Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

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Pages 108

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Product type Meeting

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) The FAO Panel of Experts on Forest Gene Resources was established in accordance with the directives of the Fourteenth Session of the FAO Conference (November 1967), which read as follows: "244. Forest Tree Genetic Resources. The Conference requested the Director-General to take into account Recommendation Nº 62 of document C67/AG/FO/1 in formulating the Programme of Work and Budget 1970-71. It recognized that, as development proceeds in the less as well as in the more advanced areas of the wor ld, the reserves of genetic variation stored in the natural forests have been or are being displaced on an increasing scale. Moreover, efforts to explore and collect forest genetic resources were, on a world scale, inadequate and inadequately concerted. 245. The Conference requested the Director-General to establish a Panel of Experts on Forest Gene Resources to help plan and coordinate FAO's efforts to explore, utilize and conserve the gene resources of forest trees and, in particular, help p repare a detailed short-term programme and draft long-term programme for FAO's action in this field and to provide information to Member Governments."

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Meeting symbol FGR/12/Rep

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Language English

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Also available in:

• French
• Spanish

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