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Dear Colleagues,

Welcome 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" !! Thank you for joining.

You can send messages now (send them to [log in to unmask]). Messages will be posted from Monday 5 November onwards while the last day for receiving messages will be Sunday 2 December 2012.

We hope that the conference will be interesting, constructive and beneficial and we encourage you to participate actively. On joining the conference, you received a Welcome Text which also contains the Guidelines for Sending Messages. Here, we would like to briefly remind you of some of the main points about the running of the conference:

1. Participants should introduce themselves briefly (2-3 sentences) in their first posting to the conference. They should also provide their full work address at the end of the message. When a message is posted, we will replace @ in the e-mail address with (at) to avoid spamming.

2. Messages should not exceed 600 words

3. People posting messages are assumed to be speaking on their own behalf and not on behalf of their employers (unless they indicate otherwise)

4. No messages will be posted with attachments. If you receive a message during the conference with an e-mail attachment, just delete it without opening the attachment.

5. Messages posted in the conference will also be made available on the web, at https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=Biotech-Room2-L

6. The Background Document to the conference, sent by e-mail to subscribers of this conference on 30 October, sets the scene for the conference. It is relatively short (just over 6 pages, excluding references) and we strongly encourage you to read it, especially Section 4 (reproduced below) 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.

Finally, we encourage you to tell any potentially interested colleagues or contacts about this conference. A short notice is included below for this purpose.

With our sincere best wishes for a successful conference,

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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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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[FROM THE BACKGROUND DOCUMENT - http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap109e/ap109e00.pdf]

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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