Modesto Francisco Fernández Díaz-Silveira (Havana, 1946) is a Cuban government official that travels often around the world talking about the environment.
He in an Investigator of the Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales para la Agricultura Tropical (INIFAT)in the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture. He was a member of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) held in 2003. He has spoken various times at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Canada.
He got his undergraduate degree in Agricultural Engineering, and his doctorate in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Havana. He is the son of Modesto Fernández-Roseñada and Lydia Díaz-Silveira López and the grandson of Francisco Díaz-Silveira. His second cousin is Francisco Díaz-Silveira Tamargo, an anti-Castro Cuban militant.
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IISD article
Earth Negotiations Bulletin, Vol. 9 No. 365 First Session of the Governing Body of the ITPGR #2 MONDAY, 12 JUNE 2006 Biosafety Clearing-House bio