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studies per region should be selected for publication. In 2021, the FAO Secretariat will complete the consecutive
Overall, the past consultations have allowed to find regional consultations through virtual platform scheduled
common highlights of demanded thematic areas and for the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (29–31 March),
case study concepts on gender and youth, public-private Near East and North Africa (6–8 April), and North
partnership, biosecurity, and capacity development of America and Europe (27–29 April).
small-scale producers/farmers, feed and food by-product,
digitalization and monitoring, data and statistics. To this Along with conducting a series of consultations and
end, the selected concepts of successful and unsuccessful drafting the GSA, the GSA progress report will be prepared
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case studies will be analyzed, and their valuable lessons and presented at 11th session of the COFI/AQ in Mexico
will be extracted. The Secretariat will apply the criteria 2021 for sharing the progress and getting advice from the
agreed during the global expert consultation to select an Members. The final GSA draft will be presented during
optimal number of case studies to be developed. the COFI 35 for Members’ review.

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Caption: Screenshots of the virtual GSA meeting for Asia (C)FAO nice?

References

•! GSA website: http://www.fao.org/in-action/gsa !
•! Report of the African regional consultation on the development of GSA:
http://www.fao.org/3/cb0280en/CB0280EN.pdf!
•! FAN62: http://www.fao.org/3/cb1550en/CB1550EN.pdf!
•! FAN61: http://www.fao.org/3/ca8302en/CA8302EN.pdf

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Screenshots of the virtual GSA meeting for Asia.

REFERENCES
GSA website: www.fao.org/in-action/gsa
Report of the African regional consultation on the development of
GSA: www.fao.org/3/cb0280en/CB0280EN.pdf
FAO Aquaculture Newsletter No. 61, April 2020.
(also available here www.fao.org/3/ca8302en/CA8302EN.pdf).
FAO Aquaculture Newsletter No. 62, October 2020.
(also available here www.fao.org/3/cb1550en/CB1550EN.pdf).

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