On 25 June 2020, NARDI Fundulea (the Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Agricola, Romania) organized the traditional ‘Field day of wheat and barley’, together with LAPAR, the biggest farmers Association in Romania. In this occasion, participant stakeholders – farmers, policy makers, researchers and mass-media – visited (respecting the necessary COVID restrictions) the screening field trials of
LIVESEED’s international workshop on 25-26 June put the spotlight on North-West Europe and the EU organic regulation’s implementation on organic seed in this region. The meeting was initially planned as physical workshop at seed company Bejo Zaden. However, the Covid-19 pandemic moved the event online, turning out a great success with high participation and engagement.
ONLINE FIELD DAY AT AGES (in GERMAN) 22nd June 2020 Join the event that due to the Corona-virus, AGES is organizing online, a field day taking place on Monday 22nd of June from 8:30-10 am. Angela Thueringer will present the LIVESEED trial of Tilletia caries on winter wheat. Participation is free, but you have to register
LIVESEED is organising three webinars in the coming weeks connected to organic fruit propagation, variety breeding, variety testing, cultivation technology and processing: Mr. Ellwein will take us on a “picture walk” of the fruit orchard with old fruit varieties (sweet cherries, peaches and apricots, plums, apple and pear) and explain the conservation of varieties, and the preparation of juices and distillation, followed by
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the unstable situation in Europe, a decision was made to turn the Annual Project Meeting into an online meeting. We have therefore closed the old registration form. To organise the online meeting, we opened a new registration form, listing all planned conference calls. Partners are kindly asked to
On 24-25 November 2020 three important events will take place in Brussels. On 24 November we will host the LIVESEED Final Congress, where we will present innovations and results from the project, co-organised with the opening day of the Organic Innovation Days (OID) 2020. On 25 November, project partners from several Member States will present
The LIVESEED Annual Project Meeting 2020, co-organised by Rete Semi Rurali, will take place on 21-24 April in Volterra, Italy, at the Scuola Internazionale di Alta Formazione (SIAF). All parties planning to attend should register by 13 March 2020. On 4 February project partners were sent an email with details and directions on how to
In most of the EU, cultivar testing takes place under conventional conditions and testing criteria are adapted to the needs of the conventional system. Therefore, the release of cultivars specifically bred for the organic system might be suppressed and organic farmers cannot identify cultivars suitable for their agricultural system. Based on LIVESEED farmers’ survey, most organic
The 2020 edition of BIOFACH is around the corner and we will be there to present our work at the BIOFACH Congress. If you’re planning to attend the yearly get-together of the organic sector, then you could consider joining our event “Organic seed and organic heterogeneous material in the new EU Organic Regulation“, taking place
On 2 and 4 October, LIVESEED national workshops took place in Bulgaria and Greece. The workshops focused on the regulation and policy framework regarding production, use and transparency on the availability of organic seed. The LIVESEED partners, including Bionext, the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL Germany) and IFOAM EU organised the workshop in Sofia
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