LiveSeeding recently published their second policy brief, this time focusing on the different definitions of plant breeding in the organic sector.
Plant Breeding & Genetic Resources
Cultivated Diversity – Organic seeds for tasty food
EU project LiveSeeding leaflets on cultivated diversity and organic breeding in several languages, and a bonus video of a baker that has adopted the biodiverse flour from populations in his work.
EU plant breeders up against patents by the multinationals
More and more plant breeding material in the EU is getting patented by multinationals giants, a development that poses costs and hurdles for those small breeders that are working to maintain agrobiodiversity, a means of resilience in the face of climate change.
Moving toward 100% organic seed use in German organic agriculture
A new academic paper was published in journal Organic Farming and is available as Open Access online: Trends in use of crop cultivars from organic and conventional seed multiplication: Moving toward 100% organic seed use in German organic agriculture. ABSTRACT In...
EU agrobiodiversity conservation at risk
While an improvement on the EU Commission’s draft, the EU Parliament resolutions to be put into law still fail to support agrobiodiversity conservation. But there is still time for EU Member States to act.
NOW ONLINE: Liveseeding Practical Guide Seed Drying & Storage
The Practical Guide for drying and storing vegetable seeds in organic small-scale and on-farm seed production is now available online in French and English.
APBREBES Newsletter #62
The April 2024 issue of the APBREBES newsletter is published on their website. Topics: UPOV and smallholder rights, NGTS and EU regulation.
Hot Water Treatments to Sanitize Vegetable Seeds
Liveseeding hosted a 3h webinar entitled "Hot Water Treatments to Sanitize Vegetable Seeds" on Tuesday, March 26th, co-organised by Bingenheimer Saatgut AG (DE), the French Organic Food and Farming Institute (ITAB, FR) and the European Coordination Let's Liberate...
Opinion: patents and GMOs in organic production
This piece describes how regulation shaped plant breeding markets and how genetic techniques may or may not fit in with organic breeding
Organic Heterogeneous Material: new operators’ tutorial
A tutorial on the new EU Organic Heterogeneous Material (OHM) regime is available to enable new operators to enter this exciting market for agrobiodiversity
