The Inter-Organisation Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) was established in 1995 following recommendations made by the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development to strengthen cooperation and increase international coordination in the field of chemical safety. The participating organizations are the Food and Programme (UNDP) are observers. The purpose of the IOMC is ...

Genetically modified rice that contains beta-carotene, widely known as Golden Rice (GR), has not yet been introduced in any country. It was developed to address Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in low-income rice consumers, but currently needs much more development and testing before it can be introduced into farmers’ fields. GR is the most famous biofortification effort undertaken with modern biotec...

Many local livestock breeds and minor species are in decline and may be lost because they cannot compete with high-yielding exotic breeds. Conserving these breeds is important: many have unique traits, such as hardiness and disease resistance, that are vital for future livestock production. One way to help ensure their survival may be to sell products from these breeds to high-value, specialist...

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Frank Place1, Oluyede C. Ajayi1, Emmanuel Torquebiau2,3, Guillermo Detlefsen4, Michelle Gauthier5 and Gérard Buttoud6 1World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi 2Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), UR 105, Montpellier 3Centre for Environmental Studies (CFES), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 4Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseña...

Rhabdomyolysis may result from various factors, namely trauma, exercise, medications, infections, endocrine disorders, congenital myopathies, and metabolic diseases. Among the latter, mitochondrial fatty acid b-oxidation (FAO) defects frequently cause recurrent rhabdomyolysis. FAO disorders are recessively inherited and have a combined incidence of 1:9,300, estimated after implementation of new...

Abnormalities of fatty acid metabolism are recognized to play a significant role in human disease, but the mechanisms remain poorly understood. Long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCAD) catalyzes the initial step in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation (FAO). We produced a mouse model of LCAD deficiency with severely impaired FAO. Matings between LCAD +/- mice yielded an abnormally low number of L...

a Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy; b Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland; c Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos (INTA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; d Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, London ...

* Vinod Ahuja is a faculty member at the Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Elizabeth Redmond is a consultant at the Livestock Information, Sector Analysis and Policy Branch, FAO, Rome. This paper was prepared during Vinod Ahuja’s visit to FAO in April-May 2001. We sincerely acknowledge the inputs received from Henning Steinfeld and Joachim Otte on ...