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Report of the Conference of Fao C 2009/REP ISSN 0 0 71 - 6944 REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE OF FAO Thirty-sixth Session Rome, 18-23 November 2009 COUNCIL (until 31 December 2010) Independent Chairperson of the Council: Mr Luc Guyau Afghanistan 2 Indonesia 2 Saudia Arabia 2 Australia 2 Italy 2 Senegal 1 Belgium 1 Japan 3 Slovakia 3 Bolivia 1 Jordan 3 Spain 3 Brazil 1 Kenya 1 Sri Lanka 3 Canada 1 Kuwait 1 Sudan 1 Chile 3 Mauritania 2 Thailand 3 China 3 Mauritius 3 Trinidad and Tobago 1 Congo 1 Mexico 1 Turkey 1 Cuba 1 Morocco1 United Kingdom 2 Egypt 2 Mozambique 3 United Republic of Tanzania 2 El Salvador 2 Niger 1 United States of America 1 France 2 Norway 2 Uruguay 3 Gabon 3 Pakistan 2 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 3 Germany 3 Philippines 3 Zimbabwe 2 Ghana 2 Republic of Korea 3 India 2 Russian Federation 1 1 Term of office: November 2007 - December 2010. 2 Term of office: 1 January 2009 - November 2011. 3 Term of office: November 2009 - 30 June 2012. COUNCIL (as from 1 January 2011) Independent Chairperson of the Council: Mr Luc Guyau Afghanistan 1 Russian Federation 3 Argentina 3 Greece 3 Saudia Arabia 1 Australia 1 India 1 Slovakia 2 Brazil 3 Indonesia 1 Spain 2 Canada 3 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 3 Sri Lanka 2 Cape Verde 3 Ireland 3 Syrian Arab Republic 3 Chile 2 Italy 1 Thailand 2 China 2 Japan 2 Trinidad and Tobago 3 Côte d'Ivoire 3 Jordan 2 Tunisia 3 Cuba 3 Mauritania 1 Uganda 3 Egypt 1 Mauritius 2 United Kingdom 1 El Salvador 1 Mexico 3 United Republic of Tanzania 1 Equatorial Guinea 3 Mozambique 2 United States of America 3 France 1 Norway 1 Uruguay 2 Gabon 2 Pakistan 1 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2 Germany 2 Philippines 2 Zimbabwe 1 Ghana 1 Republic of Korea 2 1 Term of office: 1 January 2009 - November 2011. 2 Term of office: November 2009 - 30 June 2012. 3 Term of office: 1 January 2011 - June 2013. C 2009/REP REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE OF FAO Thirty-sixth Session Rome, 18-23 November 2009 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 2009 The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers, whether or not these have been patented, does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended by FAO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. ISBN 978-92-5-106427-6 All rights reserved. Reproduction and dissemination of material in this information product for educational or other non-commercial purposes are authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of material in this information product for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the copyright holders. Applications for such permission should be addressed to: Chief Electronic Publishing Policy and Support Branch Communication Division FAO Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy or by e-mail to: [email protected] © FAO 2009 C 2009/REP iii Table of Contents Paragraphs INTRODUCTION 1 - 48 OPENING STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF TURKEY 1 TWENTY-SIXTH MCDOUGALL MEMORIAL LECTURE 2 PRESENTATION OF THE B.R. SEN AWARDS 3 - 5 PRESENTATION OF THE A.H. BOERMA AWARD 6 PRESENTATION OF THE EDOUARD SAOUMA AWARD 7 - 8 MARGARITA LIZÁRRAGA MEDAL 9 STATEMENT BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF FAO STAFF BODIES 10 IN MEMORIAM 11 ELECTION OF CHAIRPERSON AND VICE-CHAIRPERSONS 12 - 13 APPOINTMENT OF GENERAL COMMITTEE AND CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE 14 ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SESSION 15 - 35 Establishment of Commissions and Appointment of their Chairpersons, Vice-Chairpersons and Drafting Committees 17 - 21 Resolutions Committee of the Conference 22 - 24 Right of Reply 25 Verbatim Records 26 Verification of Credentials 27 - 29 Voting Rights (Resolutions 1/2009 and 2/2009) 30 - 35 ADMISSION OF OBSERVERS 36 - 37 Liberation Movements 36 Intergovernmental Organizations and International Non-Governmental Organizations 37 REVIEW OF THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 38 - 48 SUBSTANTIVE AND POLICY MATTERS IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 49 - 109 iv C 2009/REP GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL STATISTICS 49 - 56 PROGRESS REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF NATURAL FIBRES 57 INTERIM REPORT ON THE TRIENNIAL COMPREHENSIVE POLICY REVIEW OF OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM 58 - 64 STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GLOBAL PLAN OF ACTION FOR ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES 65 - 69 GLOBAL AND REGULATORY MATTERS ARISING FROM: 70 - 94 Report of the Twenty-eighth Session of the Committee on Fisheries (2-6 March 2009) 70 - 72 Report of the Nineteenth Session of the Committee on Forestry (16-20 March 2009) 73 - 77 Report of the Sixty-seventh Session of the Committee on Commodity Problems (20-22 April 2009) 78 - 81 Report of the Twenty-first Session of the Committee on Agriculture (22-25 April 2009) 82 - 91 Reports of the Thirty-fourth (Rome, 14-17 October 2008) and Thirty-fifth (Rome, 14-17 October 2009) Sessions of the Committee on World Food Security 92 - 94 UNITED NATIONS/FAO WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME 95 - 103 OUTCOME OF THE HIGH-LEVEL EXPERT FORUM ON “HOW TO FEED THE WORLD IN 2050” (ROME, 12-13 OCTOBER 2009) 104 - 105 EVALUATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE POTATO 2008 106 - 109 PROGRAMME AND BUDGETARY MATTERS 110 - 135 PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION REPORT 2006-2007 110 - 112 PROGRAMME EVALUATION REPORT 2009 113 - 115 FAO STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK 2010-19 116 - 118 MEDIUM TERM PLAN 2010-13, AND PROGRAMME OF WORK AND BUDGET 2010-11 (Resolution 3/2009) 119 - 127 REPORT OF THE COC-IEE ON THE IMMEDIATE PLAN OF ACTION FOR FAO RENEWAL (Resolution 4/2009) 128 - 133 INCENTIVES AND OTHER MEASURES TO ENCOURAGE TIMELY PAYMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS 134 - 135 LEGAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL MATTERS 136 - 168 C 2009/REP v A. Constitutional and Legal Matters 136 - 156 AMENDMENTS TO THE BASIC TEXTS (Resolutions 5/2009, 6/2009, 7/2009, 8/2009, 9/2009, 10/2009 and 11/2009) 136 - 143 OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL MATTERS (Resolutions 12/2009, 13/2009 and 14/2009) 144 - 156 B. Administrative and Financial Matters 157 - 168 AUDITED ACCOUNTS 2006-2007 (Resolution 15/2009) 157 SCALE OF CONTRIBUTIONS 2010-2011 (Resolution 16/2009) 158 - 161 PAYMENT BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY TO COVER ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER EXPENSES ARISING OUT OF ITS MEMBERSHIP IN THE ORGANIZATION 162 - 168 APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS 169 - 171 ELECTION OF COUNCIL MEMBERS 169 APPOINTMENTS 170 - 171 Appointment of the Independent Chairperson of the Council (Resolution 17/2009) 170 Appointment of Representatives of the FAO Conference to the Staff Pension Committee 171 OTHER MATTERS 172 - 175 REPORT OF THE TWELFTH REGULAR SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (Resolution 18/2009) 172 - 174 DATE AND PLACE OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONFERENCE SESSION 175 APPENDICES A Agenda for the Thirty-sixth Session of the Conference B List of Delegates and Observers C List of Documents D Report of the CoC-IEE to the FAO Conference on the Immediate Plan of Action for FAO Renewal E Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. Preamble. F Scale of Contributions 2010-2011 C 2009/REP 1 INTRODUCTION OPENING STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF TURKEY 1. His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey, delivered an opening statement to the Conference before the formal work of the session commenced. TWENTY-SIXTH MCDOUGALL MEMORIAL LECTURE 1 2. Professor Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, delivered the Twenty-sixth McDougall Memorial Lecture, in memory of Frank Lidgett McDougall, a founding father of the Organization. PRESENTATION OF THE B.R. SEN AWARDS 2 3. The 2008 B.R. Sen Award was conferred on Mr Javier Escobedo, a national of Peru, in recognition of his outstanding achievement in the development of FAO’s emergency and rehabilitation work in Haiti and the region, pioneering response, preparedness and transition to development, while serving as Regional Senior Emergency Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean. 4. For 2009, the Award was bestowed upon two officers, one of whom was Mr Luigi Damiani, a national of Italy, for rehabilitation of the Palestinian agriculture in a conflict situation through the development and implementation of a coordinated portfolio of over 30 projects providing immediate responses to crises and addressing longer-term recovery objectives. 5. The 2009 Award was also given to Mr Kevin Gallagher of the United States for the establishment of an excellent FAO country programme in Sierra Leone that reinforced country ownership and introduced creative innovations, particularly in communications and field approaches. In 2008, Mr Gallagher was appointed FAO Representative in Sierra Leone where he established, within a very short timeframe, a highly-recognized FAO country development programme that provided support under the country’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) process in defining sector development initiatives. PRESENTATION OF THE A.H. BOERMA AWARD 3 6. The A.H. Boerma Award for 2008-2009 was presented jointly to Ms Laetitia Clavreul, journalist for France’s Le Monde daily newspaper, in recognition of her exceptional coverage and analysis of the wide variety of issues affecting agriculture and food security both in the developed world and in developing countries, and to Mr Shykh Seraj, Bangladesh journalist and broadcaster.
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