on Organic Animal and Plant Breeding
- BREEDING DIVERSITY -
The Breeding Diversity Conference brought together animal and plant breeders, seed savers, producers, consumers, governments and intergovernmental agencies, researchers and universities from around the globe.
Organic breeding includes efforts of both professional companies involved in the organic market, as well as participatory farmers’ initiatives from all around the world. The conference aimed at encouraging the dialogue between commercial and subsistence farmers; scientists and practitioners; professional farmers and hobby gardeners/animal keepers in order to:
- foster organic animal and plant breeding
- assess organic animal and plant breeding standards
- build and strengthen breeding networks
- assess legal/legislative frameworks surrounding breeding
- exchange the latest results of breeding research and trials