Agricultural biological diversity: lessons learned from case-studies on animal genetic resources: paper submitted by the Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations

Abstract

The Executive Secretary is circulating herewith, for the information of participants in the seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), a background paper prepared by FAO on lessons learned from case-studies on animal genetic resources. This information note supplements the progress report by the Executive Secretary on the implementation of the programme of work on agrobiodiversity, including the development of the international pollinators initiative (UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/7/9).