COMMISSION ON GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (CGRFA)

Dalam persidangannya yang ke-11 (Eleventh Regular Session) di Roma, 11-15 June 2007, CGRFA mengagendakan upaya mengatasi ‘duplication’ dan ‘gap’ dalam injauan etika: Ethical questions regarding biotechnologies as they relate to genetic resources for food and agriculture

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Duplication
A number of forums, panels and policies are active on the issue of ethics regarding
biotechnologies in general e.g.:
the UN Inter-Agency Committee on Bioethics, UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST),
UNESCOs Bioethics Programme,
the FAO Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture and
the WHO Ethics and Health Initiative). UNESCO is well advanced in the development of a Declaration on Universal Norms on Bioethics.

Gaps
The following possible gaps were identified:
• There is no international framework for the consideration of ethical issues in the application and use of biotechnologies, including in the area of food and agriculture.
• There may be a case to develop a Declaration which parallels the structure of the UNESCO declaration specifically for bioethics in relation to biotechnologies relevant to genetic resources for food and agriculture.

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