This virtual event provided a neutral forum for FAO Members, partners, industry and opinion leaders, and other stakeholders to engage in focused dialogues on how best to make quality seeds of preferred productive, nutritious and resilient crop varieties available to farmers.
In addition, it generated evidence for actions towards the realization of the goals of FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-31: for the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems for Better production, Better nutrition, a Better environment and a Better life, thus contributing to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDGs 2 and 1.
- Program of the parallel sessions
- Session registration link
- Full conference program
- Event website
- Multilingual materials (Trello board)
- The event was webcast live here.
The conference was a forum for reviewing the state of knowledge of crop diversity, the overall status of its conservation and availability and its underpinning role in resilient and sustainable agri-food systems. The sessions of this theme explored the overarching need for enhanced access to the conserved resources and the mechanisms for equitable and fair benefit-sharing mechanisms.
04/11 Section A: Developing solutions for farmers
- Solutions for small-scale farmers - Fatma Ben Rejeb, Chief Executive Officer, Pan-African Farmers’ Organization (PAFO)
- Advanced technologies - Mauricio Lopes, Research Scientist, Embrapa Agroenergy, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Brazil
- Crop improvement – conservation of crop biodiversity to impactful use (15 minutes) Marco Ferroni, Chair, CGIAR System Board
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