International conference BREEDING INNOVATIONS FOR ORGANIC FOOD SYSTEMS

The general objectives will be the 5 th conference of the EUCARPIA Organic and Low Input Section since its establishment in 2007. This section addresses the issues that are relevant to plant breeding for organic and low-input agriculture.

And this will be also the final conference of Horizon 2020-funded project LIVESEED “BOOSTING ORGANIC SEED AND PLANT BREEDING ACROSS EUROPE” that runs from 2017 to 2021. Relevant sister-projects BRESOV andECOBREED are involved as well along with two projects of Latvian national Fundamental and Applied Research program.

TOPICS:
 Exploring underutilized genetic resources
 Breeding for diversity
 Breeding for culinary and nutritional quality
 Living soil – plant interactions
 Organic production of high quality &
healthy seed
 Multi-actor & participatory approaches
 Socio-economic analysis of seed systems
 Market & consumers aspects
 Regulatory & policy opportunities

Contacts:

EUCARPIA_FLYER_9
organizing.eucarpia@arei.lv