Policy brief proposing a legal definition of organic plant breeding and urging EU-level extension of adapted DUS/VCU rules to register Organic Varieties and ensure OHM notification across species.
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Training on organic breeding
A free online course on organic breeding in 5 separate modules
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.
1st EU LiveSeeding Webinar on Entrepreneurship in the Organic Seeds and Breeding Sector
The EU webinar “Entrepreneurship in the organic seeds and breeding sector” aims at strengthening the knowledge and skills needed, of existing or potential initiatives, to undertake an entrepreneurial activity in the organic seeds and plant breeding sector.
Radicchio: a success story of culinary breeding
The Culinary Breeding Network organizes activities to inspire connection and collaboration throughout the food system, in order to improve plant breeding for organic farming. Among these activities was a trip to Italy, visiting the places where radicchio – the most famous form of plant Chicorium intybus – originates from.
Organic seed and breeding sector: stakeholder survey
The EU project Liveseeding is looking for input from current and prospective organic seed producers and traders in order to identify which obstacles are in the way of the horizontal proliferation (scale-out) and scale-up of organic seed and cultivar testing in the EU.
EU H2020 BRESOV Project: Final Conference
The Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente at the University of Catania, coordinator of EU H2020 project BRESOV (Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable production) organises a final conferece to present the results of the project and provide a platform for discussion and networking.
Together with the community for free seed, we made the first open source rye a reality
Recently, OpenSourceSeeds has tried out whether the development of a new variety can be financed with a crowdfunding campaign. With success: the first harvest is expected in 2023.
FiBL: Visiting Friends of Agrobiodiversity Across Europe
“To get to know this diversity better, we take you on a journey through Europe from north to south, visiting the pioneers of organic plant and animal breeding.
With their diverse and unique activities, they are contributing, not only to ecological, but also to societal resilience. “
BIOFACH
From 17-19 February 2021, BIOFACH will be hosting the world’s leading trade fair in a new digital format. Once more, the European organic movement joins BIOFACH/Vivaness as exhibitor and takes part in BIOFACH’s congress programme. Are you attending?...
