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Biosafety Testing Methodologies for Transgenic Plants (GMO ERA Project)
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| Coordinating organisation: | Geobotanical Institute |
| Description: | There is wide recognition that the regulatory and scientific capacity for conducting risk assessments of GMOs needs to be strengthened in most developing countries. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety of Living Modified Organisms under the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) requires that parties cooperate in the development and/or strengthening of human resources and institutional capacities in biosafety. The project works in three focal countries, Brazil, Kenya and Vietnam, all of which have expressed the need for resources and capacity for environmental risk assessment, and which can act as centers of expertise for their regions. The goal of the project is to develop scientific methodologies for the environmental risk assessment of transgenic plants (referred to in the proposal as GMO-ERA). The two central goals for Phase II are 1) to enable the scientists from the focal developing countries to develop and implement independently the environmental risk assessment models that have been jointly developed by the project, including contributing to the regulatory process, and 2) to expand and generalize the use of project products to neighbouring developing countries. |
| Budget (in &euro): | 475000 |
| Internet: | Projects Link |
| Start: | 2005-05-01 |
| End: | 2007-12-31 |
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| ARD-theme: | biotechnology |
| Target country: | Brazil Kenya Vietnam |
| Activity: | training research |
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| Donor organisations: | 1 |
| Participating organisations: | 5 |
| Programmes funding: | 1 |
| Last editing: | 2006-06-08 12:11:37 |