Analytic observations of seminar scientific work according toward objectives

Report is Deliverable 9 of 6th FP SSA project “Environmental friendly food production system: requirements for plant breeding and seed production” (ENVIRFOOD) and includes analytic observations of seminar scientific work according toward objectives - organic plant breeding, variety testing, seed production, organic food and feed quality, exposition of organic food products

Variety testing for organic farming: current status and problems in Europe

Report is part of Deliverable 4 of 6th FP SSA project “Environmental friendly food production system: requirements for plant breeding and seed production” (ENVIRFOOD) and contains information about current status and problems in EU regarding to organic variety testing

Organic plant breeding and seed production in Baltic States: developments and challenges

In this paper the current situation in plant breeding, variety testing for organic agriculture and organic seed production in the Baltic States, tasks for future are described

Evaluation of different oat varieties to identify prospective breeding lines for organic agriculture

Implications Prospective oat breeding lines investigated in this study under organic management conditions showed significant variation according to grain quality traits that are important for grain processors such as grain size, test weight (TW), grain grades, groat percentage, groat yield and damaged groats. It shows the possibility to develop improved oat varieties specifically designed for organic agriculture that possesses oat grain processing requirements to obtain qualitative organic oat products

Globalisation as a challenge or opportunity for organic farming

During one intensive week in October 2005, the authors were gathered to discuss the impact that globalisation has on the Organic Food Systems and the opportunities that globalisation opens up for developing these systems. The meeting took place as a Ph.D. course under the auspices of the Research School of Organic Farming and Food Systems (SOAR; www.soar.dk). All participants research within Organic Agriculture and Food Production in one way or another