Switzerland: Summary of Post-Organized Biotechnology Seminar at the World Trade Organization

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FAS Geneva organized a biotechnology seminar entitled “The Impact of Biotechnology on Developing World Agriculture, Nutrition, and the Environment” on September 22, 2015 at the WTO. Experts in the field of agricultural biotechnology from India, Uganda, Philippines, and the United Kingdom gave informative presentations. The capacity audience, primarily country representatives to the WTO and UN, heard persuasive and passionate arguments in favor of agricultural biotechnology as a tool to fight poverty and malnutrition in developing countries.

Switzerland: Summary of Post-Organized Biotechnology Seminar at the World Trade Organization

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