Community Seed Bank Labs – Workshop funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth (Project ID: KA210-ADU-1727BE52)
Elkana presents its Seed Ark farm, Community Seed Bank and Seed Libraries in Georgia, detailing seed multiplication, annual renewal and farmer seed‑share practices to conserve landraces and support agrobiodiversity, livelihoods and local seed systems.
Community Seed Bank Labs – Workshop funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth (Project ID: KA210-ADU-1727BE52)
Overview of Community Seed Banks: origins, core functions, activities, differences with seed libraries, and the Seeds of Growth aim to strengthen seed-saving and CSBs across Europe.
Community Seed Bank Labs – Workshop funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth (Project ID: KA210-ADU-1727BE52)
Practical workshop on on‑farm vegetable seed quality: harvesting, drying, cleaning, testing and storage, with tips on equipment, humidity control, labelling and seed‑stock management.
Practical toolkit from Diversifood with building blocks, case examples and methods to run multi-actor participatory plant breeding projects that boost on-farm agrobiodiversity.
The 2025-2026 newsletter of the Buzuruna Juzuruna network is out! A short excerpt of the content: news from the region Ancient Cereals Festival farm work and experiments seed and seedling distribution campaigns news on training and education news from the HoBob...
New rule was intended to prevent patents on traditional plant breeding 19 February 2026 / The European Patent Office has granted patent EP3720272 claiming traditionally-bred tomatoes with resistance to a plant virus (TBRFV) to the Dutch company Rijk Zwaan. The gene...
A two-part webinar on the topic of Governance and Financing Models for Organic Plant Breeding in Europe will be held within the Liveseeding project in March. When? 10 March 2026 | 9h30–13h00 CET 11 March 2026 | 9h30–12h30 CET What to expect? • Governance and financing...
Quantitative study (688 households, 1,600 plots) in Malawi finds CSBs supply ~1/3 of seeds for participants and are associated with improved household food security; yield effects vary by crop and CSB participation correlates with past climate shocks.
Presentation of FiBL’s organic pre-breeding programme for white lupin in Switzerland, targeting anthracnose resistance, earliness and low alkaloid content through pedigree selection and composite cross populations.
LiveSeeding recently published their second policy brief, this time focusing on the different definitions of plant breeding in the organic sector.
