Highlights for Tuesday, 19 February 2019
The new publication 'The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture'
On Tuesday, delegates completed their deliberations on nutrition and genetic resources for food and agriculture (GRFA) and discussed the following issues:
The report on the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture, including needs and possible actions in response to the report;
Aquatic GRFA, including the report on the State of the World’s Aquatic GRFA and options for follow up to the report; and
Plant GRFA, including review of implementation of the second Global Plan of Action on plant GRFA.
Delegates also decided to continue deliberations on follow up to the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture report and access and benefit-sharing in informal groups, and to revisit a draft decision on “digital sequence information” (DSI) later in the week.For more details on the day's events and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB).
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the 17th Session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
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Morning Plenary
View of the dais during the morning plenary
Carla Douglas, Jamaica
William Wigmore, CGRFA 17 Chair
Abdus Salam, Bangladesh
Frank Begemann, Germany
Oksana Dobrovolskaya, Russian Federation
Axel Villalobos-Cortés, Panama
Desterio Ondieki Nyamongo, Kenya
Anna Lartey, Director, Nutrition and Food Systems Division, FAO
Devra Jarvis, Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR) and Bioversity International
Maeen Ali Al-Javmouzi, Yemen
Cristina Grandi, IFOAM - Organics International
Delegates during the session
Afternoon Plenary
René Castro-Salazar, Assistant Director-General, Department of Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water, FAO; Irene Hoffmann, CGRFA Secretary, FAO; and William Wigmore, CGRFA 17 Chair
Gustav Daud, Indonesia
Bonnie Furman, Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO
Matthias Halwart, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO
Arshiya Noorani, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department, FAO
Manrique Altavista, Argentina
Katie Scholl, Chair, Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Belemane Semoli, Vice-Chair, Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Naohito Okazoe, Japan
Mme Ndeye Ndack Diop, Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO
Evening Sessions
Open-ended contact group on Agenda Item 7 - the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
Informal meeting of the Friends of the Chair
Around the Venue
Delegates arrive for the second day of CGRFA 17
William Wigmore, CGRFA 17 Chair, speaks with Dan Leskien, CGRFA Secretariat
Cho Chang Yeon, Republic of Korea, and CGRFA 16 Chair, speaks with a delegate
Cesar Tapia, Ecuador, speaks with Mario Marino, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR)
Irene Hoffmann, CGRFA Secretary, FAO
Delegates from Morocco
Delegates huddle to coordinate activities
Delegates meet in the corridors
Delegates speak informally between sessions
Delegates visit the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Earth Negotiations Bulletin website to follow the discussions
