[BCFSN] Legislative Agriculture Committee Update

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Book launch: "Coping with climate change - the roles of genetic resources for food and agriculture"

 

Genetic resources for food and agriculture play a crucial role in food security, nutrition and
livelihoods and in the provision of environmental services. They are key components of
sustainability, resilience and adaptability in production systems. They underpin the ability of
crops, livestock, aquatic organisms and forest trees to withstand a range of adverse conditions.
Thanks to their genetic diversity plants, animals and micro-organisms, in terrestrial and aquatic
environments, adapt and survive when their environments change. Genetic diversity is also globally
threatened by climate change, which poses new challenges to their management, but it also underlines
their importance.

 

Given the importance of the issues, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) prepared, at the request of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture,
thematic studies on the interactions between climate change and plant, animal, forest, aquatic,
invertebrate and micro-organism genetic resources (available at
www.fao.org/nr/cgrfa/cross-sectorial/climate-change/en/). The results of these studies are
summarized in the book entitled: "Coping with climate change - the roles of genetic resources for
food and agriculture". The book has be launched on 19 January 2015 and is available at
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3866e.pdf. 

 

After a brief overview of the main international processes relevant to climate change, the book
presents six sections dealing with the various sectors of genetic resources for food and
agriculture. Each section addresses two key questions: 

*	What are the possible effects of climate change on genetic resources for food and
agriculture and how does it influence their management? 
*	What are the specific roles of genetic resources for food and agriculture in coping with
climate change? 

This book aims to raise awareness of the important roles of genetic resources for food and
agriculture in coping with climate change and to contribute to the mainstreaming of genetic
resources for food and agriculture into climate change adaptation and mitigation planning at
national and international levels.

 

For more information please contact, Linda Collette, Secretary of the Commission on Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO)  at cgrfa at fao.org 

 

 

 

 

 

Pamela Zevit, R.P. Bio 
Adamah Consultants 

Coquitlam BC Canada
604-939-0523 

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