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
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
A postgraduate course on the development of resilient seed systems (RSS) with participatory breeding programs (PPB) will be held this summer in the Netherlands. What you will learn Concepts, strategies, methods and experiences with decentralised and participatory approaches to plant breeding and seed system development to increase agrobiodiversity and cope with climate changes Governance issues
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.
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
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