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ASEAN biodiversity chief to discuss biodiversity and food security at SEARCA seminar
How
many food crop varieties have disappeared from our fields over the last
100 years? Are we running out of food sources? How can biodiversity conservation
help ensure we will have sustainable access to food?
These are only some of the issues that ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Executive Director Rodrigo U. Fuentes will discuss in a seminar dubbed “Biodiversity and Food Security: Is the Threat Real?” Hosted by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), the seminar will be held on 15 July 2008, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Drilon Hall of SEARCA in Los Baños, Laguna.
Fuentes heads ACB, a European Union-assisted intergovernmental regional centre of excellence that facilitates cooperation and coordination among the members of the ASEAN, and with relevant national governments, regional and international organizations on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Biodiversity and food security is among the key issues addressed by the Centre through its various initiatives.
Open to the public and free of charge, the lecture is part of SEARCA’s Agriculture and Development Seminar Series (ADSS). The weekly scientific and policy forum provides a venue for the presentation and discussion of development and research issues, as well as their implications to agricultural and rural development.
For more information, please contact Ms. Nova A. Ramos of SEARCA’s training
department at telephone numbers (+649) 536-2365 local 125 and e-mail address
adss@agri.searca.org. You may also contact the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity
at (+6349) 536-2865 and (+6349) 536-1044 or e-mail contact.us@aseanbiodiversity.org.
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