Presentations and research
Conference material and presentations from the SAVE-DAGENE Conference 2018 in Kozárd have been added to the Publications section.
Photos can be viewed in the Gallery section (photos by Zsolt Becskei).
Ecosystems - Products - Conservation
SAVE-DAGENE Conference2018. June 24.-27. - Kozard, Hungary
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Provisional Agenda
Travel & Accomodation
FAO working to advance global biodiversity agenda
31 May 2018, Rome - FAO, acting as Biodiversity Mainstreaming Platform, can help shift agricultural production onto a more sustainable track -- one that promotes healthy and thriving ecosystems while also producing ample and nutritious food for a growing global population. At the close of a three-day meeting (29-31 May) convened to discuss the work of the Platform, a group of 250 Ministers, policymakers, experts, and private and civil society representatives provided a number of suggestions for the Organization's future work on biodiversity.
Pesticides: What happens if we run out of options?
To slow the evolutionary progression of weeds and insect pests gaining resistance to herbicides and pesticides, policymakers should provide resources for large-scale, landscape-level studies of a number of promising but untested approaches for slowing pest evolution. Such landscape studies are now more feasible because of new genomic and technological innovations that could be used to compare the efficacy of strategies for preventing weed and insect resistance.