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Infographics: Benefits of Organic Plant Breeding

Flyer: Cultivated diversity - Organic Seeds for tasty food

Learn with this flyer about Organic Plant Breeding and its economic, environmental and social benefits

English: Cultivated Diversity - Organic Seeds for tasty food

Deutsch: Kultivierte Vielfalt - Biozüchtung für leckeres Essen

Français: La diversité cultivée - Des semences bio pour des aliments savoureux

Italiano: La diversità coltivata - Semi bio per cibi gustosi

Report - Benefits of organic breeding: taking stock and raising awareness

The ReportBenefits of organic breeding: taking stock and raising awareness summarises the work of Benefits.Biobreeding Activity 1 (2024, Value chain expert consultation).

We involved value chain actors of three selected focus cases to identify and evaluate the benefits and costs of organic breeding.

The three focus cases for the benefits-costs evaluation are:
- Breeding program: Development of a Composite Cross Population (CCP), as a potential example of Organic Heterogeneous Material (OHM) by Rete Semi Rurali; Crop: Wheat; Product: Bread; Value chain region: Tuscany (Italy).
- Breeding program: Development of an organically bred, open pollinated (OP) variety, as potential example of Organic Variety (OV) bred by Kultursaat and commercialized by Bingenheimer Saatgut; Crop: Beetroot; Product: Beetroot juice; Value chain region: Germany.
- Breeding program: Dynamic management of agrobiodiversity program: In-situ selection/ conservation of a local landrace / heirloom cultivar (LR) by ProSpecieRara; Crop: onion; Product: onion; Value chain region: Romandie (Switzerland).

Overall synthesis ENGAGEMENT.BIOBREEDING

The document Financing and governance strategies in organic breeding summarises the work of Engagement.Biobreeding Europe (2019 to 2023)

In this document you can find:

A description of the current state of play of financing and governance strategies in organic breeding with perspectives investigated by the project
Report of three sase studies of value chain partnerships in organic breeding.
The fact-sheet – recommendations for a solid and sustainable financing with shared responsibilities along the value-chain (also available below as stand alone document

FACT-SHEET: Governance and financing strategies in Organic Breeding

Engagement.Biobreeding fact-sheet - English

Engagement.Biobreeding fact-sheet - Deutsch

Engagement.Biobreeding fact-sheet - Français

BROCHURE: Visiting Friends of Agrobiodiversity Across Europe

The publication takes readers on a journey to 15 organic plant and animal breeding initiatives in Europe. Every initiative is presented by a person involved in the initiative. For each initiative, the aims and challenges are described. The selected examples give a good insight into the great diversity of initiatives to maintain and promote biodiversity in organic crops and animal species.