Introduction The need to conserve farm animal biodiversity is accepted by many countries through the ratification of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD, 1992). Although farm animal breeds are not well defined in general terms, they are the typical unit for conservation. Based on an inventory of the actual breeds (on the global scale this is done by FAO through the world watch list, Sch...

This paper is a submission from IUCN, PROFOR, and the World Bank in follow up to discussions held at the third meeting of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) on the relationship between sustainable forest management (SFM) and ecosystem approaches (EsA) as applied to forests. It is also a response to a decision at the 6th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity...

[54] MICROORGANISMS HAVING MULTIPLE COMPATIBLE DEGRADATIVE ENERGY-GENERATING PLASMIDS AND PREPARATION THEREOF [75] Inventor: Aanada M. Chakrabarty, Latham, N.Y. [73] Assignee: General Electric Company Schenectady, N.Y. [21] Appl. No.: 207,563 [22] Filed:....................................... Jan. 7, 1972 [51] Int. Cl. .....................................C12N 15/00 [52] US Cl. ..........435/17...

Safeguarding sustainability of forest ecosystems with their habitat variability and all their functions is of highest priority. Therefore, the long-term adaptability of forest ecosystems to a changing environment must be secured, e.g., through sustainable forest management. High adaptability is based on biological variation starting at the genetic level. Thus, the ultimate goal of the Conventio...

Biodiversity came out as a global issue from the mid 1980s, under the pressure of converging forces: the threatening increase in species extinction and the changes in the theory as well as in the practice of nature conservation, but also the expansion of genetic engineering and the intrusion of industrial interests into areas from which they had been hitherto excluded. These elements have parti...

C on Biological Diversity(CBD), is the first international attempt to provide a legal framework for ensuring conservation and sustainable use of the genetic resources in addition to addressing concerns of equity. This international convention promotes services to the communities involved in creation and conservation of biological resources, in the form of adequate reward and compensation and as...

Do we need an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing (ABS) ? The Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 2003) to be held in February 2004 will probably give a political answer to this question. However, we would hope there is time for further legal, technical and economic analysis of this proposal before a definit...

In the past decade significant scientific progress has been made with the Golden Rice project. Significant increases in carotenoid have been achieved. Micronutrient malnutrition has been recognised as a major factor in total world malnutrition. What could be responsible for the continuing slow progress of the project? The answer may be related to the confluence of three influences on world soci...