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Dear Participants,

The last messages (numbers 58 to 61) have now been posted so Conference 19 of the FAO Biotechnology Forum, entitled "Impacts of genomics and other 'omics' for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries", is now officially closed.

The FAO Biotechnology Forum was established in order to provide quality balanced information on agricultural biotechnologies in developing countries and to make a neutral platform available for people to exchange views and experiences on this subject. We hope that you found the conference interesting, constructive and beneficial.

The Background Document to the conference is available on the web (at http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/aq145e/aq145e.pdf - 90 KB) and all of the messages posted during the conference are available on the web, at the searchable website: 
: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=Biotech-Room3-L . To see them sorted by date (latest on top), see https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1303&L=Biotech-Room3-L&O=D&H=0&D=1&T=1 
  
For your interest, we can provide some figures about participation in this 3-week long conference. The number of conference subscribers rose from 471 people on 4 March 2013 when the conference began to 522 on 24 March when the conference finished. Just one person unsubscribed during the conference. Of the 522 subscribers, 44 (i.e. 8%) submitted at least one message. Of the 61 messages that were posted, 36% came from people living in Asia; 28% from Europe; 13% from Latin America and the Caribbean; 10% from Africa; 8% from North America; and 5% from Oceania. The messages came from people living in 22 different countries, the greatest number coming from India (13 messages) followed by the United Kingdom (7), United States (5), Finland (4) and Nigeria (4). A total of 35 messages (i.e. 57%) were posted by people living in developing countries. Just over half of the messages came from people working in universities; a quarter came from people working in research centres, including CGIAR centres; while the remaining quarter came from people working in the private sector, for the Government or working as independent consultants.

I would like to conclude by thanking all of you who participated actively in this conference. My impression is that a large number of people joined this conference to learn and to get an updated overview about this fascinating and fast moving area. So, a big thanks to those of you who made it possible by dedicating your time and effort to sharing your knowledge, ideas, experiences and viewpoints with the rest of us.

With best wishes

John

John Ruane, PhD
Forum Administrator
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
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