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• Deliverable 4.6 Policy recommendations

  Set of recommendations on farm conservation strategy, the role of innovative market mechanisms, legislative framework for landraces, conservation varieties and amateur varieties in Europe.

• Deliverable D4.4

  Title: National Survey on the Role of Innovative Market Mechanisms

• Deliverable D3.1

  Title: Seed quality recommendations

• Deliverable D2.3

  Title: Report on the Analysis of the bottlenecks and challenges identified for on-farm maintenance and breeding in European agricultural conditions

• Deliverable 1.4 (updated)

  Title: Matches and mismatches of the 2008/62/EC Directive text, practice, and positions. Improved version. November 2009

• Deliverable 4.2

  Title: Project leaflet

• Deliverable 4.1

  Title: Project Web site

• Deliverable 2.2

  Title: Inventory of initiatives on seeds of landraces in Europe - Published in: Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development 2009, 103 (1/2): 95-130

• Deliverable 2.1

  Title: Breeding initiatives of seeds of landraces, amateur varieties and conservation varieties An inventory and Case Studies

• Deliverable 1.3

  Title: Characterisation of Stakeholder Expectations - an expert survey

• Deliverable 1.2

  Title: Report on the definitions of varieties in Europe, of local adaptation, and of varieties threatened by genetic erosion

• Characterization of Stakeholder Expectations - an expert survey

  This is a Report on stakeholder expectations of placing biodiversity of agricultural crops on the market. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, in 1992 commits the governments to conserve the biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources. The main goal of the Workpackage 1.2 of the FSO project (Farm Seed Opportunities) is to provide an overview of stakeholders related to the topic of the project, and to report on stakeholder expectations of bringing biodiversity to the market / niche markets, including added value and volume. An expert survey among the main stakeholders of this marketing process from field to fork has been executed in five countries varying in the interpretation of the seed trade and breeders laws and with different market situations.

• Matches and mismatches of the 2008/62/EC Directive text, practice, and positions. Report - February 2009

  The report deals with matches and mismatches between the recent European directive on conservation varieties related to current practice in the conservation and use of varieties and landraces that are not included in national (and EU) varieties lists. Such varieties are (still) in use. This means that countries have for a long time either approved or have been unable to control the use of such varieties. The Directive aims at contributing to the conservation and use of crop genetic resources ; it intends in fact to regulate some gaps in existing seed regulations. This study analyze whether the Directive may be considered a contribution to the conservation and continued use on-farm of a wider array of field crop varieties, or that the regulations may curtail current practice.

• Deliverable D1.1

  Interim results of literature research, case studies and in depth surveys

• PPT_bruxelles

  Presentation prepared for the Bruxelles meeting on 25 April 2007

"The publication of this web site was financially supported by the European Commission through the STREP project "Farm Seed Opportunities", contract no. 044345, under the 6th Framework Programme, priority 8.1, "Specific Support to Policies."

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