I am pleased to inform you that the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation will begin to develop a Secretariat report to Council, pursuant to Article 13 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, on issues related to the protection of plant genetic diversity for maize. The report proposes to examine several issues related to the conservation and sustainable use of traditional maize varieties in Mexico. These issues could include, inter alia, the relationship between the production of traditional maize varieties and the conservation and sustainable use of megadiversity in Mexico; the effects of trade liberalization in the farm sector, effects of non-traditional corn imports on the conservation of traditional maize varieties; and the effectiveness of domestic policy measures in place in Mexico, including the moratorium on planting transgenic corn varieties, and on protecting traditional maize varieties. (...) |
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