CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Biodiversity
The Value of Biodiversity to Food and Agriculture
To be released at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD/COP9) in Bonn, Germany, 19-30 May 2008. The issue will coincide with the review of the Programme of work on Agricultural Biodiversity, as well as with the celebrations of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May on the theme of Agriculture and Biodiversity. The following topics will be considered for publication:Â
Other related topics will also be considered. Please submit your abstracts (250 words or less) by 16 November 2007 to the Managing Editor, Stephen Aitken (aitken@tc-biodiversity.org). Space is limited. For more information on Biodiversity please visit www.tc-biodiversity.org. Final papers will be due 7 January 2008, and the publication is scheduled for 15 April 2008.
Produced in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and partial support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Ontario Trillium Foundation and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC).
Please give me info as to how someone can register for the attend the conference
If you mean the Conference of the Parties, that is a pretty high-level government affair. Your government will have someone in a ministry who is responsible for liaison with the convention on Biological Diversity. Try contacting them. Failing that, try the CBD directly at http://www.cbd.int/