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liveseed organic innovation days oid organic seeds november 2020

SAVE THE DATES! LIVESEED Final Stakeholder Event, EU Workshop on Organic Seed Production & Use and Organic Innovation Days to take place 24-25 November 2020 in Brussels, EUCARPIA Conference in Spring 2021

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

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LIVESEED Annual Project Meeting 2020 to take place in April in Volterra, Italy

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

LIVESEED INVITE stakeholder workshop

How to adapt cultivar testing to the needs of the organic sector?

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's session at BIOFACH2020 in Nuremberg

Join our session at BIOFACH 2020!

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

New LIVESEED videos

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

novel concepts and tools to predict seed vigor and plant robustness

Novel concepts and tools proposed for seed vigor prediction linked to plant holobiont robustness – LIVESEED partners contributed

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

Common Bunt

Webpage on Common Bunt Management released by ITAB Institute

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,

Stakeholders at the national level agree on concrete actions to stimulate the availability and use of organic seed in Greece and Bulgaria

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

AEGILOPS’ open field day on modern trends in organic farming and breeding

AEGILOPS –  The Greek Network for Biodiversity and Ecology in Agriculture, partner of the LIVESEED project, organised an open field day on 9 June 2019 to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of its activities. The event, held at LOTUS – Organic Research Farm in the village of Ano Lehonia, near Volos, was dedicated to “Modern trends

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