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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:50:35 +0100
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Dear Participants,

Firstly, a big thanks to all of you who have sat down and submitted messages to this FAO 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".

The conference began on Monday 5 November and lasts 4 weeks, so we are now more than halfway through the e-mail conference. The last day for receiving messages is Sunday 2 December 2012. These final messages will be posted on Monday 3 December and the conference is then closed.

In the remaining time that is left, I encourage you to continue the discussion about the conference's two main topics. 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?

I note so far, that no messages have yet considered the issue of new GMOs in the forestry sector. Also, the conference Background Document described the many areas in food and agriculture where GM micro-organisms are currently being used (e.g. in food processing, in animal nutrition, for metabolic modifiers and for production of vaccines). No messages have yet have yet considered the issue of new GMO micro-organisms for any of these purposes.

I remind you that all of the messages posted in the conference are available at the searchable website https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=Biotech-Room2-L (note, you do not need to log in to read them). To see the messages sorted by date (latest on top), see https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1211&L=Biotech-Room2-L&O=D&H=0&D=1&T=1 

Finally, I conclude by hoping that you will find the rest of the conference to be interesting, constructive and beneficial and by reproducing Section 4 (below) from the conference Background Document which provides specific guidance about the topics that participants should address in the conference. The document is available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap109e/ap109e00.pdf (60 KB). Contact me (at [log in to unmask]) if you want to receive the document by e-mail.

With best regards

John


John Ruane, PhD
Moderator,
E-conference on GMOs in the pipeline,
FAO Working Group on Biotechnology, 
E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
FAO Biotechnology Forum: http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/

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4. Specific points about this e-mail conference

This is the 18th e-mail conference to be hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum (http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/en/) since it was launched in the year 2000. As with each conference hosted by the Forum, the focus is on applications in developing countries. 

There are two main topics that people are asked to address in the conference:

4.1 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?

Specific questions that can be addressed regarding these new GMOs include: 

4.1.1 Which species will they be?
4.1.2 Which traits will they have?
4.1.3 Will they be developed by the public sector, the private sector or through public-private partnerships?
4.1.4 Will they be produced in the developing countries themselves or, alternatively, will they be developed elsewhere (and then imported by developing countries for commercialization purposes)? 
4.1.5 What kind of intellectual property management options will be exercised by the bodies commercializing these new GMOs?

4.2 What are the likely implications of these new GMOs for developing countries?

Specific questions that can be addressed regarding this topic include: 

4.2.1 What are the likely implications of these new GMOs on food security and nutrition in developing countries? 
4.2.2 What are the likely implications of these new GMOs on socio-economic conditions in developing countries?
4.2.3 What are the likely implications of these new GMOs on sustainable management of natural resources in developing countries?
4.2.4 What are the likely implications of these new GMOs on adaptation to climate change in developing countries?

4.3 Topics not covered by the conference

Each conference of the FAO Biotechnology Forum takes one particular theme that is relevant to agricultural biotechnologies in developing countries and opens it up for debate for a limited amount of time. This conference focuses on GMOs in the pipeline - those that are not yet released but which may be commercially available in developing countries within the next 5 years.

This conference does not include discussions on:

i) whether GMOs should or should not be used per se or the general attributes, positive or negative, of GMOs per se. 

(Instead, the goal is to discuss the specific kinds of GMOs that are in the near pipeline - which ones are likely to be commercialized in developing countries within the next 5 years and what their implications may be for developing countries).

ii) GMOs which are already commercially available in developing countries 

(If they are already commercially available, they are not in the pipeline).

iii) GMOs that are imported to developing countries just for consumption, i.e. for food, feed and processing. 

(Instead, the conference focuses on the commercial release of the GMOs for use (cultivation/production) in the crop, forestry, livestock, aquaculture and agro-industry sectors in developing countries).

iv) The kinds of GMOs that are likely to be commercialized in developed countries within the next 5 years and what their implications may be for developed countries. 

(The focus of the FAO Biotechnology Forum, and each of its conferences, is on applications in developing countries).

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