LIVESEED project comes to an end after 52 months

The LIVESEED project came to an end on 30 September 2021, after 52 months of activities. Started in June 2017, 51 project partners put their hearts and souls into boosting organic seed and plant breeding.

During this time, several resources, tools, practice abstracts, booklets (many of which translated into several EU languages), videos, research reports, and presentations were produced and made available through the project website.

All these materials are a useful source of information for all those active in organic seed and plant breeding.

Among the documents we would like to highlight:

• The booklet with project outcomes and results “LIVESEED – Boosting organic seed and plant breeding across Europe“;
• Boosting organic seed and breeding across Europe: recommendations for stakeholders and policy makers (booklet);
• Recommendations per topic and per target group (posters);
• A national roadmap towards 100% organic seed by 2036” (policy brief); and
• Policy and stakeholder recommendations to boost organic seed & breeding sector (report).

Although the project’s website will not be updated anymore, IFOAM Organics Europe will keep it up and running as a repository for all these documents until September 2024 and will archive it afterwards.

Got any questions regarding website or results? Please contact us at [email protected], [email protected], or write Dr. Monika Messmer at the Research Institute of Organic Research (FiBL) Switzerland at [email protected].

For more knowledge on organic seed and plant breeding we invite you to visit the dedicated section on the Organic Farm-Knowledge Platform, the ECO-PB website, Organic EPrints, and the EU Router Database.

We thank all project partners for their commitment and contribution along this journey to boost organic seed and plant breeding in the EU!

Visit the LIVESEED website to learn more and relive the project’s developments on Twitter and Facebook using @LIVESEEDeu and #LIVESEEDeu.

LIVESEED aims to boost organic seed and plant breeding across Europe. IFOAM Organics Europe and FiBL-Switzerland coordinate the project with 50 partners covering 18 EU countries. The LIVESEED project will increase transparency and will provide recommendations on organic seeds. The project partners analyse national seed databases and factors influencing organic seed production and use. They also explore national policies, smart practices, build EU infrastructure and analyse issues on propagation. The partners also want to advance testing protocols to improve the availability of organic seeds, ensuring they are adapted to the realities of organic farmers. LIVESEED is an EU Horizon 2020-funded project.