Background The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). In this context, many events will be organised to raise awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development. By providing the knowledge to understand the threats and
This is a hard time for Europe and the world. We hope all partners and their loved ones are healthy and unaffected by the outbreak of COVID-19. We know that most Member States introduced unique measures to tackle the situation that we, as project managers of the LIVESEED project, can’t possibly follow for all the
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
Robust seed systems are central to sustainable food systems that are renewable, resilient, equitable, diverse, inclusive, healthy, and interconnected. In light of critical global challenges there is an urgent need to maintain and enhance agricultural biodiversity. The Shared Action Framework for Resilient Seed Systems (SAF) has been developed in response to address this salient issue.
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
LIVESEED partners produced a series of practical videos throughout the summer. Common bunt management RSR and ÖMKi interviewed Common bunt (Tilletia caries) expert Anders Borgen from Agrologica (DK) on how to control Common bunt in organic, including how to spot the infection, how to control primary infection and seed infection, and how to combine varieties
An international team of young and senior scientists proposed novel concepts and tools to predict seed vigor and plant robustness. Scientific concepts are based on the crucial role of alternative respiration for plant holobiont stress responses. This study was coordinated by Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt (University of Évora) including results of the LIVESEED project and the international
LIVESEED project partner ITAB Institute just released a brand new webpage on common bunt management. Previously available in French only, thanks to the commitment of ITAB’s Stéphanie Klaedtke, this very useful piece of information has now been translated into English and thus made available to a much broader public. The webpage, hosted by ITAB’s website,
The LIVESEED project published new reports and results from its research and activities. Political obstacles to the implementation of the rules on organic seed We analysed political obstacles to the implementation of the Rules on Organic Seed. The Report on Political Obstacles and Bottlenecks on the Implementation of the Rules for Organic Seed in the
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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