Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
There’s an open letter floating around that is addressed to Members of the European Parliament and to a variety of EU Commissioners for this that and the other. The intent is to advocate for opening up the EU legislation on the Marketing of Seed and Plant Propagating Material, in order to: [M]ake it more respectful …
Cytological and Molecular Characterization of Homoeologous Group-1 Chromosomes in Hybrid Derivatives of a Durum Disomic Alien Addition Line. Getting tolerance to Fusarium head blight into durum wheat ain’t easy. Sustainable, low-input, warm-season, grass–legume grassland mixtures: mission (nearly) impossible? Apparently really difficult to find native North America legume forage species tolerant of both freezing and high …
Last week we briefly Nibbled the Seeds for a Sustainable Future conference organised by European Greens and held yesterday. Despite the very short notice, an agrobiodiverse mole tunnelled her way into the proceedings and sent back a report. Claudia Olazabal, Head of Biodiversity, which comes under the Nature Conservation & Biodiversity Unit at DG ENVI, …
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We’ve blogged often about the EU’s seed regulations ((This is as good a place as any to start.)) and we continue to keep a watching-eye on developments. So we were very pleased to receive a report from Isabel Lopez Noriega, a policy specialist at Bioversity International, about a conference on Ensuring Seed Availability in the …
This news item out of the European Commission seems to be very important, so I think I’m justified in reproducing it in full below, especially as the specific item does not yet have a url all to itself (though there is a fairly general one): The Commission adopted on Friday June 20 a proposal that …
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