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Dear Forum Members,

We wish to announce that Conference 18 of the FAO Biotechnology Forum begins on Monday 5 November and runs for four weeks, finishing on Sunday 2 December 2012. The title of the conference is "GMOs in the pipeline: Looking to the next five years in the crop, forestry, livestock, aquaculture and agro-industry sectors in developing countries".

The goal of the conference is to look into the near future in order to inform the debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the pipeline. Specifically people will be asked to address two main topics in the conference. First, what new GMOs are likely to be commercialized in developing countries within the next five years (i.e. before the end of 2017) in the crop, forestry, livestock, aquaculture and agro-industry sectors? Second, what are the likely implications of these new GMOs for developing countries?

The e-mail conference, as usual, is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated. The purpose of this message is to inform you that the Background Document has now been finalised and to invite you to join the conference.

The Background Document aims to provide easy to read information that participants will find useful for the conference. After the introduction, Section 2 of the document provides an overview of GM crops, trees, livestock, fish and micro-organisms that are currently commercialized. Section 3, on the GMO pipeline, briefly discusses the research-to-commercialization pathway; the choice of a 5-year time horizon for the e-mail conference; and some GMOs that are in the pipeline in the different sectors. Section 4 presents some specific guidance about the topics that are to be discussed in the conference. Section 5 provides references of articles mentioned in the document, abbreviations and acknowledgements.

The 9-page Background Document is available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap109e/ap109e00.pdf (60 KB).

As for previous conferences hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum, a document will be prepared after the e-mail conference is finished to provide a summary of the main issues that were discussed, based on the messages posted by the participants.

Please pass this information on to other colleagues who might be interested in joining the conference. As the Background Document sets the scene for the conference and highlights the elements to be discussed, it should be read carefully (particularly Section 4) by people wishing to participate in the conference.

Note that you, as a Forum member, are NOT automatically subscribed to this conference. Instead, if you wish to join, you should subscribe yourself. Instructions for subscribing are provided in the conference announcement provided below.

Best regards

John

John Ruane, PhD
FAO Biotechnology Forum Administrator
E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
Forum website http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/
FAO Biotechnology website http://www.fao.org/biotech/

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GMOs in the pipeline - FAO e-mail conference

From 5 November to 2 December 2012 the FAO Biotechnology Forum is hosting its next e-mail conference on "GMOs in the pipeline: Looking to the next five years in the crop, forestry, livestock, aquaculture and agro-industry sectors in developing countries". Its goal is to inform the debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the pipeline, considering the specific kind of GMOs that are likely to be commercialised in developing countries over the next five years and to discuss the likely implications of these new GMOs for developing countries. The conference is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated. To subscribe to the conference, send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] with the following one line in the body of the message (leave the subject line blank):
subscribe biotech-room2-L firstname lastname

Where firstname and lastname refer to the person's first and last name. For example, if the subscriber's name is John Smith, then the line should be:
subscribe biotech-room2-L John Smith

The background document to the conference is available from the Forum website, at http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/en/. For more information, contact [log in to unmask]

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