International conference – Breeding Innovations for Organic Systems
International conference BREEDING INNOVATIONS FOR ORGANIC FOOD SYSTEMSNEUCARPIA Organic and Low Input Section jointly with LIVESEED, BRESOV, ECOBREED, FLPP and ECO-PBNThe general objectives will be the 5 th conference of the EUCARPIA Organic and Low Input Section since its establishment in 2007. This section addresses the issues that are relevant to plant breeding for organic and low-input agriculture.NAnd this will be also the final conference of Horizon 2020-funded project LIVESEED “BOOSTING ORGANIC SEED AND PLANT BREEDING ACROSS EUROPE” that runs from 2017 to 2021. Relevant sister-projects BRESOV andECOBREED are involved as well along with two projects of Latvian national Fundamental and Applied Research program.NTOPICS: Exploring underutilized genetic resources Breeding for diversity Breeding for culinary and nutritional quality Living soil – plant interactions Organic production of high quality &healthy seed Multi-actor & participatory approaches Socio-economic analysis of seed systems Market & consumers aspects Regulatory & policy opportunitiesNinformazioni : scrivi a matteo.petitti_at_semirurali.netNContacts:organizing.eucarpia@arei.lv