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Prof. Dr. Edith Lammerts van Bueren
Professor Organic Plant Breeding
Wageningen University & Research Centre
Droevendaalsesteeg 1
6700 Wageningen
The Netherlands
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Events related to Organic Food and Farming Research

December 1-3, 2010; EUCARPIA Conference: Breeding for Resilience

The 2nd Conference of the "Organic and Low-Input Agriculture" Section of EUCARPIA is taking place in Paris from December 1-3, 2010.

01.12.2010 to 03.12.2010
Location: Paris, France

The symposium will deal with breeding strategies for organic and low-input farming systems with special emphasis on approaches that allow for more resilience in response to global change.

Topics

  • Breeding for adaptability under global change
  • Improving resilience of agro-ecosystems based on genetic diversity
  • New insights into the genetic bases of local adaptation and their use in breeding
  • Breeding for diverse environments and products 
  • Regional participatory plant breeding

EUCARPIA is the European Assocation of Plant Breeding (www.eucarpia.org) . It is a non profit organization aiming at the promotion  of scientific and technical co-operation in all fields  of plant breeding in order to foster its further development.

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