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• Riccardo Bocci - Integration, decision making support and outreach - Presentation Marseille Conference

  Overall objectives: Integrate and further process the knowledge arising from the other WPs, taking into account also experiences and know-how already in place in Southern Countries, Enhance the co-operation between relevant existing actors, such as scientific networks, on farm breeding networks, and any other local organizations for breeding and maintenance of conservation varieties, Provide the society at large with adequate information about scientific results and on-going research. Besides, WP4 will contribute to enlarge the scientific basis of organic breeding. It will also point out the role of the on farm conservation and breeding.

• Joost van der Burg - Seed production and marketing Presentation Marseille Conference

  Results 2007 and 2008 harvests Results of field visits and interviews wheat, maize, beans, and spinach

• Isabelle Goldringer - Farm Seed Opportunities - Improving maintenance and breeding Presentation Marseille Conference

  Context: It is not established to what extend farmers seeds management in Europe constitute a complementary strategy for:preserving part of agro-biodiversity and for contributing to novel phenotypes Identify key points in maintenance, breeding in the existing European initiatives on seeds of landraces, conservation varieties and special 'amateur' varieties likely to improve the breeding of these seeds Develop methodologies for conservation and breeding in an approach of participatory innovation development, involving all relevant actors and adapted to the diversity of local seeds.

• Maria Scholten Scotland's landraces: on farm conservation Presentation Marseille conference

• Edith Lammerts van Bueren Determination of Stakeholder expectations Presentation Marseille conference

  Work Overall objective: Under the expectations lie different definitions or interpretations of the concept of land races, conservation varieties and amateur varieties among different stakeholders in different countries and/or regions. Therefore it is important to map and clarify those differences and to identify conflicting areas between current practices and current (draft) regulations.

• BRAZIL SEED LAW AND AGROBIODIVERSITY Juliana Santilli Presentation Marseille Conference

  Brazilian agriculture:  sharp duality of agricultural models local/traditional/family/small-scale farming (large diversity): main producer of food for the national market: 70% beans; 46% corn, 87% cassava, 58% milk - 75% of rural labor. Small farms represent 85%, but occupy only 25% of the cultivated area. Agrobusiness/industrial farming: “commodities”/commercial crops for exportation. Main product: soybean (45% of the cultivated area);1/3 of the Gross National Product (PIB) Two ministeries: MAPA and MDA

• Conservation of agrobiodiversity in Hungary Presentation Marseille Conference

  From the Central Agricultural Office Department for Agrobotany, Tapioszele, Hungary Main activities Largest plant germplasm collection in Hungary founded in 1959 Centre for PGRFA conservation: technical coordination of national PGR activities; participation in international programmes; 300 hectares

• Esperienza italiana - italian laws - Presentation Marseille conference (in italian)

• Agriculteur bio du Quebec, Canada Presentacion Marseille conference (in French)

• Galie Syria Marseille Conference Presentation

  The Participatory Plant Breeding Programme (PPB) at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) Programme to improve rural livelihoods in resource-poor areas by enhancing food security through collaborative research for sustainable agricultural production Main topics: Introduction to the PPB Programme; Importance of Barley in Syria; Impact of PPB programme; Limitations to impact in Syria; Variety release system in Syria

• Regine Andersen - SEED LAWS Agrobiodiversity and On-farm Conservation in Norway Presentation Marseille Conference

  A few introductory words on... The book "Governing Agrobiodiversity Plant Genetics and Developing Countries" The Farmers Rights ProjectLe Projet des Droits des Agriculteurs El Proyecto de los Derechos del Agricultor

• Pratap Shrestha, LI-BIRD Implication of Seed Policy and Laws for Conservation of Local Crop Varieties in Nepal - Presentation Marseille Conference

  Ecological features, Ecological features Seed Systems in Nepal Traditional seed systems Formal seed system Seed production and marketing

• Politicas de Agrobiodiversidad en Peru' Presentation Marseille Conference

  Estructura agraria en Peru'; Centro de origen y diversidad; Pais Megadiverso: 82 de las 103 zonas de vida natural que existen en el mundo Zonas agroecologicas: desde los 800 msnm a los 4,300 msnm Centro de origen y diversificacion de importantes cultivos para la alimentacion y la agricultura de la humanidad (papa, tuberculos andinos, tomate, maiz, camote, aji, algodon de color, calabaza, entre otros). Riqueza Biocultural + Pobreza Agrobiodiversidad: manera de enfrentar el riesgo, seguridad alimentaria, adaptacion

• Veronique Chable coordinator Presentation: The end of the project Marseille international conference

  Pourpose: to share experiences and strategies between scientists and farmers from the North and the South, to promote mechanisms for an effective preservation, sustainable use and benefits sharing at global scale. And then, to be able to enlarge the scenario propositions at the international level. So we need: to share experiences and strategies between scientists and farmers from the North and the South, to promote mechanisms for an effective preservation, sustainable use and benefits sharing at global scale. And then, to be able to enlarge the scenario propositions at the international level.

• invitation.pdf

  Marseille International Conference invitation and programme

• poster_session.doc

  Call for Poster for the FSO International Conference Appel a Poster pour la Conference Internationale du projet FSO

• registration_form.doc

  Marseille International Conference Farm Seed Opportunities 14 - 15 October 2009 Conference registration form

• Invitation Conference internationale (French)

  14 - 18 October 2009 Marseille - France - Agricultural forum on cultivated biodiversity

• download the State of art.pdf

  State of art: notion of adaptation and evolution One important aim of FSO is to describe the varieties bred on-farm and to analyse the mechanisms (farmers practices, natural selection) that drive the evolution and adaptation of these varieties.

• expert meet 16-9-09 Intro.pdf

  Brussels experts meeting 16 September 2009 Introduction to Meeting

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