2026-06-27http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/241787This report represents a summary of discussions that took place during a meeting held at FAO headquarters between 9th and 11th February 2005. The meeting addressed issues in connection with strengthening national plant breeding and biotechnology capacity. Over twenty representatives of agencies and institutions involved in genetic resource use and plant breeding, including an observer from the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) and about ten repres entatives from FAO attended the meeting. The participants came from approximately twenty countries.25application/pdftext/htmlFAOBook (stand-alone)