Conferences,
Meetings & Events
1992
June 92: UN Conference on Environment
& Development
Chapter 14 - Promoting Sustainable Agriculture and
Rural Development
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
gopher://gopher.un.org/00/conf/unced/English/a21_14.txt
1995
Feb. '95: Science and Technology for Integrated
Land Management
Commission on Sustainable Development -
Intersessional to the Third Session
New York, USA
gopher://gopher.un.org/00/esc/cn17/1994-15/sector/landmngt.txt
Apr. 95: Report CSD
- Promoting Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development
Commission on Sustainable Development - Third
Session
New York, USA
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri1.htm#third
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1996
Sept. 96: Consideration
of Agricultural Biological Diversity under the CBD
Convention on Biological Diversity 3rd
Conference of the parties
Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.biodiv.org/cop3/html/COP-3-14-e.htm
Progress under the FAO Global
System for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation of Plant Genetic
Resources for Food & Agriculture
http://www.biodiv.org/cop3/html/COP-3-15-Rep-e.htm
Nov. 96: World Food Summit
FAO
Rome, Italy
http://www.fao.org/wfs/homepage.htm
1997
Apr. 97: Report of
the Secretary General: Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
and Rural Development
Commission on Sustainable Development - Fifth
Session
New York, USA
gopher://gopher.un.org/00/esc/cn17/1997/off/progress/97--2a13.en
Apr. 97: FAO
Committee on Agriculture 14th Session
FAO
Rome, Italy
http://www.fao.org/unfao/bodies/council/cl112/w5021e.htm
June 97: Programme
for further implementation of Agenda 21 - Sustainable Agriculture
UNGASS - Earth Summit II
New York, USA
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri1.htm#special
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1998
Mar. 98: OECD
Meeting of the Committee for Agriculture at Ministerial Level
OECD
Paris, France
http://www.oecd.org/agr/ministerial/index.htm
Mar. 98: Programme
of Work on Agricultural Biological Diversity
Convention on Biological Diversity - 4th
Conference of the Parties
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
http://www.biodiv.org/cop4/4-06/cop4-6e.html
June 98: First European Conference of
Information Technology in Agriculture
European Federation of Information Technology in
Agriculture
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.efita.org/conference97/default.asp
June 98: The Second International
Conference on Women in Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington DC, USA
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rd/icwa
Oct. 98: Third
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
System Review
CGIAR
http://cgreview.worldbank.org/cgrevrep.htm
Oct. 98: Workshop on Emerging Trade
Issues in Agriculture
OECD
Paris, France
http://www.oecd.org/agr/trade/index.htm
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1999
Jan. 99: FAO
Committee on Agriculture 15th Session
FAO
Rome, Italy
http://www.fao.org/unfao/bodies/COAG/COAG15/default.htm
May 99: Asian
Regional Workshop on Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture Systems
World Bank, International Federation of
Agriculture Producers (IFAP)
Samsum, Turkey
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/susint.nsf/HiddenDocView/
81F783F5A645D192852567810054BC01?OpenDocument
Results:
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/susint.nsf/HiddenDocView/
0DC4BDE87BF02420852567810059B9C4?OpenDocument
May 99: OECD
Council Meeting of Ministers Food & Agriculture
OECD
Paris, France
http://www.oecd.org/agr/News/index.htm
May 99: Mid Term
Meeting of the Consultative Group on International
Agriculture
Research
CGIAR
Beijing, China
http://www.worldbank.org/html/cgiar/publications/mtm99/mtm99.html
July 99: Central
American, Andean & Caribbean Regional Workshop on
Sustainable Intensification of
Agriculture Systems
World Bank, International Federation of
Agriculture Producers
Belize
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/susint.nsf/1eebb85e226b384d8525663c
000e03a8/015a799cdb887cad8525671a00816b4a?OpenDocument
Sept. '99: FAO
Netherlands Conference on the Multi-Functional Characteristics
of Agriculture
FAO, Netherlands Government
Maastricht, The Netherlands
http://www.fao.org/mfcal/
Sept. 99: 2nd
European Conference of the European Federation for Information Technology in
Agriculture, Food & the Environment
Bonn, Germany
http://www.dainet.de/efita99/
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2000
Jan. 2000: The Agricultural Knowledge Systems
OECD Directorate for Food, Agriculture &
Fisheries
Paris, France
http://www.oecd.org/agr/aks/index.htm
Jan. 2000: 2nd
Conference of Directors and Representatives of Agricultural
Knowledge Systems
OECD
Paris, France
http://www.oecd.org/agr/aks/index.htm
Feb. 2000: Working Group on
Agriculture & Environment
UNEP Regional Office for Europe
Strasbourg, France
Contact: environment@coe.int
Feb. 2000: Brainstorming on
Agro-biodiversity
UNEP
Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.unep.org/unep/gef
Apr. 2000: Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
Commission on Sustainable Development - Eighth
Session
New York, USA
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri1.htm
May 2000: 4th
International Conference on Chain Management in Agri-business & the Food
Industry
EFITA
Wageningen, The Netherlands
http://www.sls.wau.nl/bk/congres
June 2000: Committee on Agriculture
World Trade Organisation
Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.wto.org
5-8 June 2000: Third
Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference - ABIC 2000
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.abic.net/
12-16 June: 2000
International Conference on Science and Technology for Managing Plant Genetic
Diversity in the 21st Century
Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
http://www.cgiar.org/ipgri/sosindex.htm
July 2000: Agricultural Engineering into the 3rd
Millennium
EFITA
Warwick, UK
http://www.eurageng.demon.co.uk/ageng2k.htm
25 Aug. - 2 Sept. 2000: IFOAM
2000
International Federation of Organic
Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
Basel, Switzerland
http://www.ifoam2000.ch/
3-8 Sept. 2000:
Biotechnology 2000 11th
International Biotechnology Symposium
DECHEMA
Berlin, Germany.
http://www.dechema.de/englisch/veransta/ibs11/pages/ibs11_1.htm
Sept. 2000: Committee on Agriculture
World Trade Organisation
Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.wto.org
7-10 Sept. 2000:
First International Global Mountain
Biodiveristy Associations Meeting
Rigi, Switzerland
http://www.unibas.ch/gmba/conference.html
22-23 Sept. 2000:
International Conference on Biotechnology in the Global
Economy
Harvard
Universitys Kennedy School of Government.
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidbiotech/bioconfpp/
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Biosafety Protocol
1996
July 96: First
Meeting of the Open-ended Ad-Hoc Working Group on Biosafety
Convention on Biological Diversity
Aarhus, Denmark
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/vol09/0948000e.html
1997
May 97: Second
Meeting of the Open-ended Ad-Hoc Working Group
on Biosafety
Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreal, Canada
http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/biosafe2.html
Oct. 97: Third
Meeting of the Open-ended Ad-Hoc Working Group
on Biosafety
Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreal, Canada
http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/biosafe3.html
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1998
Feb. '98: Fourth
Meeting of the Open-ended Ad-Hoc Working Group
on
Biosafety
Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreal, Canada
http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/biosafe4.html
Aug. 98: Fifth
Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety
Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreal, Canada
http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/BIOSAFE5.HTML
1999
Feb. 99: Sixth
Meeting of the Open Ended Ad-hoc Working Group
on Biosafety
Convention on Biological Diversity
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/bswg6/bswg6.html#bswg6doc
Feb. 99: Extraordinary
Meeting of the Conference of the Parties
http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/bswg6/bswg6.html#bswg6doc
July 99:
Informal Consultation on the process to resume the Extraordinary Meeting
of the COP to adopt a Protocol on Biosafety
Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreΰl, Canada
http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/Inform-cons.HTML
Sept. 99: Informal
Consultation on the process to resume the
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2000
Jan. 2000: Resumed
Session on the First Extraordinary Meeting of
the COP to Finalize and
Adopt a Protocol on Biosafety
Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreal, Canada
http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/biosafe6.html#Montreal
2002
Apr. '02: First Meeting of the
Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP1)
The Hague, Netherlands
UNEP
http://www.biodiv.org
Apr. '02: Sixth Meeting of the
Conference of the Parties (COP-6)
The Hague, Netherlands
UNEP
http://www.biodiv.org
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