AFSI Newsletter - January 2023 | |
Highlights from AFSI's Activities in 2022 | |
With the new year's arrival, we take a moment to reflect on an eventful 2022. Below are highlights from the Agriculture & Food Systems Institute's activities over the past twelve months–by no means a comprehensive accounting. Our team is proud of what we accomplished, having organized a slew of virtual and in-person events when travel logistics remained in flux, while also expanding the resources we freely offer to the public. We look forward to furthering our programs in 2023. | |
Webinar Series on Microbial Biotechnology for Novel Foods | |
Our webinar on microbial biotechnology addressing the challenges in India was organized on January 11, 2022, attracting more than 1,700 registrants. Our follow-on activity on September 13-15, 2022 was targeted at audiences in Southeast Asia, with talks addressing scientific and regulatory issues by speakers from Singapore, the Philippines, and Thailand. We will organize a related webinar series targeted at audiences in South America in 2023, which will expand to address not only novel foods, but also the potential of microbial biotechnology in plant biologics.
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Workshops on Animal Biotechnology in Kenya and Brazil | |
On July 28-29, 2022, AFSI, Acceligen, and ISAAA AfriCenter co-organized a workshop in Nairobi to assist in developing technical and regulatory frameworks to allow for commercialization and trade in products of animal biotechnology. We also co-hosted the Fourth International Workshop on Regulatory Approaches for Agricultural Applications of Animal Biotechnologies in São Paulo on September 12-16, 2022. Two e-learning courses on animal biotechnology were translated into French, Portuguese, and Spanish to complement these training activities.
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Workshop on Problem Formulation and Food Safety Assessment in Korea | |
Preceded by virtual activities in 2020 and 2021, AFSI organized a workshop on Problem Formulation and Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Modern Biotechnology in Seoul on July 25-26, 2022. The training activity covered key concepts on problem formulation, codex principles, and the basics of food and feed safety assessment for whole foods, along with a session on current global practices related to approaches for the regulation of gene-edited organisms. AFSI made five e-learning courses available in Korean to support this training.
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Conferences on Biotechnology in Bangladesh | |
AFSI co-organized the Biotechnology Outreach Conference with Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL) on June 14-15, 2022 in Dhaka, and on October 18-19, 2022, AFSI co-organized the Conference on Genome Editing in Plants: Harnessing the Benefits for Bangladesh, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council, and BCIL. Each conference attracted over 100 in-person participants.
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Intercessional Workshops Associated with the APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Biotechnology (HLPDAB) | |
AFSI implemented six intercessional virtual workshops associated with the APEC HLPDAB in 2022. After an introductory event on April 20-21, 2022, we launched the by-invitation-only Agricultural Biotechnology Seminar Series, which took place on May 11, 2022, July 22, 2022, August 5, 2022, and November 22, 2022, with each session hosted by a different member economy and averaging around 100 attendees. AFSI also organized a two-day training activity on information sharing on August 16-17, 2022. The Agricultural Biotechnology Seminar Series will continue in 2023.
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