FAO e-mail conference: Water scarcity and agricultural biotechnologies

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Global/Internet, 05 Mar 07

FAO Biotechnology Forum

The FAO Biotechnology Forum is devoting this e-mail conference to the role that biotechnologies can play in helping developing countries cope with water scarcity. Organised in collaboration with our colleagues in FAO's water programme (http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/aglw/), it is one of the many activities planned to coincide with the World Water Day, which is celebrated each year on 22 March. This year its theme is "Coping with water scarcity' and FAO is the coordinating agency within the UN system for the theme. The primary focus of the conference will be on the use of biotechnology to increase the efficiency of water use in agriculture, while a secondary focus will be on two specific water-related applications of micro-organisms, in wastewater treatment and in inoculation of crops and forest trees with mycorrhizal fungi. To discuss and exchange experiences on this subject, we invite you to join the conference. The background document for the conference is available at http://www.fao.org/biotech/C14doc.htm. This will be the 14th conference hosted by the Forum since it was launched in 2000. The conference, as usual, is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated. It begins on 5 March and finishes on 1 April 2007. All e-mail messages posted during the conference will also be placed on the Forum website. To join the Forum (and also register for the conference), send an e-mail to mailserv@mailserv.fao.org leaving the subject blank and entering the following text on two lines:
subscribe BIOTECH-L
subscribe biotech-room2

Those who are already Forum members should leave out the first line of the above message, to register for the conference. For more information, contact biotech-mod2@fao.org.

Contact: John Ruane <biotech-admin@fao.org>