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ECO-PB Summer School Tuscany 2022: Young Breeder - Mentor workshops

ECO-PB, Rete Semi Rurali, Engagement.Biobreeding | Florence/Italy | June 2022

Materials

Presentations:

Presentation Rete Semi Rurali (RSR, Riccardo Bocci)

Presentation ECO-PB (FiBL DE, Freya Schäfer)

Organic plant breeding and seed production, an example from Denmark (Anders Borgen, Agrologica)

Practical examples of vegetables breeding: Breeding for nutritional quality in open pollinated vegetable crops (Edwin Nuijten, Kultursaat & De Beersche Hoeve)

Organic seed production and marketing (Stefano Balestri, Cooperativa Agricola Cesenate)

Holistic approaches to organic breeding: how to address complex plant – environment interactions (Véronique Chable, INRAE)

Financing organic breeding: Input from Engagement.Biobreeding project (Mariateresa Lazzaro)

Data capturing, experimental design and data analysis (Matteo Petitti, RSR & Mariateresa Lazzaro, FiBL CH)

Manuals and articles:

Position paper: Compatibility of breeding techniques in organic systems (IFOAM OI, 2017)

Brochure: Visiting friends of agrobiodiversity across Europe (Engagement.Biobreeding, 2022)

Technical manual: Plant breeding with farmers (Salvatore Ceccarelli, ICARDA, 2012)

Plant Breeding Techniques: An assessment for organic farming (FiBL, 2015)

Practical guide for researchers and facilitators: Guidelines for organic on-farm cultivar trials (LIVESEED, 2021)

Practical guide for researchers and facilitators: Selecting the appropriate methodology for organic on-farm cultivar trials (LIVESEED, itab, 2021)

Yield, yield stability and farmers' preferences of evolutionary populations of bread wheat: A dynamic solution to climate change (Bocci et al., 2020)