A new video on the Spanish National Strategy on Conservation and Utilization of Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Food Plants
The Ministry of Agriculture of Spain has produced a video to disseminate the design, approval and implementation of the National Strategy on Conservation and Utilization of Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Food Plants. Click here to watch...
Second GA online meeting – October 2024
A second all day online GA meeting took place 22nd October 2024. We had dedicated sessions for each WP and Flagship crops including presentations and discussion between teams and planning future work and collaborations. A root phenotyping workshop was organised for...
Protecting genetic resources in Europe: the article of EU CAP NETWORK
Protection of agricultural genetic resources is essential to maintain biodiversity and enables species to adapt to climate and environmental changes. EU funds, particularly the CAP, can play an important role in supporting this goal (think of the Farm to Fork...
BBC Landward filming highlighting R-evolve and Cousin science
At the end of May the Cousin partner James Hutton Institute highlighted two important barley projects for BBC Landward. The Institute invited Arlene Stuart to visit their barley fields and seed store to showcase their diverse barley germplasm collection.The James...
COUSIN presentation at kick-off meeting of the sister project PRO-WILD
From 4 to 6 September 2024 the sister project PRO-WILD will kick-off at the INRAE Centre of Crouel in Clermont-Ferrand (France). Christian Schöb will present COUSIN to the members of the PRO-WILD consortium to stimulate interactions and joint activities between the...
COUSIN at the 188th EAAE Seminar in Chania (Greece)
At the 188th EAAE Seminar in Chania (Greece) from 12 to 13th September 2024, chaired by our COUSIN member Kostadinos Mattas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), the use of biodiversity for sustainable food systems will be a central topic. We from COUSIN will...
Crop Wild Relatives – Origins. A video from the Royal botanical garden
Crop Wild Relatives are all over the world and are invaluable resource to be protected. In this video made by the Royal Botanical Garden you can learn more about the crop...
Dynaversity video scribing #9: Protected areas and crop wild relatives
During the Dynaversity project (http://dynaversity.eu/), a series of videos were produced to present some of the key concepts of low-input agriculture in 2 minutes. Among them, number 9 addresses the topic of Crop Wild Relatives and their importance as a source of...
“Crop Wild Relatives: The Value of Biodiversity for Food Security”
In May, in the heart of the Monfragüe Biosphere Reserve (Extremadura, Spain), the Aprisco Association organised the technical conference “Crop Wild Relatives: The Value of Biodiversity for Food Security” at the experimental farm of Las Corchuelas del...
COUSIN KICK-OFF MEETING
From 7th to 8th of February in Aranjuez (Spain) at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 25 universities, civil society organisations and companies are meeting for launching COUSIN, the new Horizon Europe dedicated to Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) utilization and...
The Cousin project begins. The news from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
The COUSIN project brings together 26 partners from 13 countries who will work on the use of crop wild relatives, using five flagship crops. The Department of Genetic Improvement of the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (IAS) of the Spanish National...