Agrologica

Agrologica er specialist indenfor udvikling af økologisk korn. Vi har i årtier arbejdet målbevist mod at udvikle kornsorter og dyrkningsmetoder, som under økologiske betingelser, kan give den optimale kvalitet for både landmænd, bagere og forbrugere. En række af de bedste kornsorter er nu ved at blive opformeret, så de i de kommende år bliver tilgængelige på de danske og udenlandske markeder.

Agrologica indgår i en række forsknings- og udviklingsprojekter, ofte sammen med andre virksomheder og forskningsinstitutioner, hvor vi går i dybden med udvalgte emner. Mange projekter handler om udvikling af hvede, som er sundere end normal hvede, eksempelvis i forhold til gluten-allergi, diabetes, overvægt og kræft. Andre projekter handler om planternes resistens overfor sygdomme som f.eks. stinkbrand og angreb af nematoder, mens atter andre handler om bage- eller maltkvalitet. På nogle af disse forskningsområder er vi absolut førende i Europa.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Forskning og uddannelse

 Bioversity International

Bioversity International has a staff of around 320 working in 16 offices around the world.

Bioversity was established in 1974 by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and remains a part of the CGIAR-system.

Originally called the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR), it was set up in response to growing alarm over the rapid loss of crop biodiversity and the threat this posed to agricultural growth and food security. IBPGR’s mission was to coordinate an international plant genetic resources programme. This included organizing collecting missions as well as building and expanding genebanks at national, regional and international levels.

Kategori: Offentlige organisationer | Frøavl og frøsamlere

 Fröodling.se

Fröodling.se är en nystartad webbplats för publicering av böcker och artiklar om fröodling och andra förökningsmetoder, bevarande och utveckling av sorter, sortkunskap, med mera.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere

 Frøsamlerne

Frøsamlerne er en landsdækkende forening med over 400 medlemmer (2012). Foreningen er stiftet i 1987, og indsamler, afprøver, og udveksler frø og planter af gamle eller sjældne sorter. Vi arbejder for at bevare den genetiske og kulturelle arv indenfor havebrug.

Medlemmernes haver udgør en decentral "græsrods genbank" og bidrager til vores frøliste med ca. 400 sorter af køkken­urter, krydderurter, landbrugsplanter, bær og frugttræer, og blomster. Vi får frø til afprøvning fra mange frøsamlerorganisationer i udlandet, og tilbyder gamle danske sorter til frøsamlere i Sverige og Norge.

Kategori: Foreninger | Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie

 Föreningen Sesam

Föreningen Sesam är en ideell förening som genom praktiskt arbete verkar för att bevara den mångfald som finns bland köksträdgårdens och åkerns växter. Föreningen vänder sig i första hand till hängivna odlare som är nyfikna på ovanliga eller gamla köksväxtsorter och andra nyttoväxter och som bevara dessa i odling.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Foreninger | Gamle sorter og historie

 GRAIN

GRAIN is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.

GRAIN was established at the beginning of the 1990s to launch a decade of popular action against one of the most pervasive threats to world food security: genetic erosion. The loss of biological diversity, undermines the very sense of "sustainable development" as it destroys options for the future and robs people of a key resource base for survival. Genetic erosion means more than just the loss of genetic diversity. In essence it is an erosion of options for development. Central to our approach is the conviction that the conservation and use of genetic resources is too important to leave to scientists, governments and industry alone. Farmers and community organisations have nurtured genetic diversity for millennia, and continue to do so. Any effort in this field should take their experience as a starting point.

Kategori: Foreninger | Frøavl og frøsamlere

 Heritage Seed Library

The Heritage Seed Library (HSL) aims to conserve and make available vegetable varieties that are not widely available. The HSL Department maintains a collection, mainly of European varieties. Over the decades many varieties have been dropped from popular seed catalogues. Our collection contains many of these but also some landraces and a large number of family heirloom varieties that have never been in a catalogue. We are not a gene bank and all our collection, once we have enough seed will become available to our members.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Forhandlere og frøfirmaer | Gamle sorter og historie

 Native Seeds/SEARCH

Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. NS/S works to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwestern and northwest Mexico.

Our mission began in 1983, springing from the nexus of cultural longing and impending loss of genetic diversity. Today we safeguard 2000 varieties of arid-land adapted agricultural crops. Some, like watermelons, were adapted from seeds brought by early Europeans. Most of our collection consists of varieties of indigenous crops developed over centuries or millennia to suit the needs of their human partners. We promote the use of these ancient crops and their wild relatives by distributing seeds to traditional communities and to gardeners world wide.

Currently we offer 350 varieties from our collection, grown out at our Conservation Farm in Patagonia, Arizona. We also work to preserve knowledge about the traditional uses of the crop we steward. Through research, seed distribution and community outreach NS/S seeks to protect biodiversity and to celebrate cultural diversity. Both are essential in connecting the past to the future.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Foreninger

 Navdanya

Navdanya means “nine seeds” (symbolizing protection of biological and cultural diversity) and also the “new gift” (for seed as commons, based on the right to save and share seeds In today’s context of biological and ecological destruction, seed savers are the true givers of seed. This gift or “dana” of Navadhanyas (nine seeds) is the ultimate gift – it is a gift of life, of heritage and continuity. Conserving seed is conserving biodiversity, conserving knowledge of the seed and its utilization, conserving culture, conserving sustainability.

Navdanya has its own seed bank and organic farm spread over an ares of 20 acres in Uttrakhand, north India.

Navdanya has so far successfully conserved more than 5000 crop varieties including 3000 of rice, 95 of wheat, 150 of kidney beans (rajma), 15 of millets and and several varieties of pulses, vegetable, medicinal plants etc.

Kategori: Foreninger | Gamle sorter og historie | Frøavl og frøsamlere

 No Patents on Seeds

The No Patents on Seeds coalition is initiated by the Berne Declaration, Greenpeace, Misereor, No Patents on Life, Swissaid and the Norwegian Development Fund, and campaigns for a clear regulation in patent law.

Their initiative is supported globally by over 300 NGOs and farmers’ organisations, and has collected about 100.000 signatures against patents on plants and animals. The coalition now urges the institutions of the EU to go for clear legal regulations to exclude from patentability plants and animals, genetic material and processes for breeding of plants and animals and food derived thereof.

Kategori: Foreninger | Gamle sorter og historie | Frøavl og frøsamlere

 Nordisk Genbank

NGB är ett samnordiskt institut som rapporterar direkt till Nordiska Ministerrådet. NGB har en personalstab på fjorton personer och för att kunna arbeta effektivt med de olika växtslagen har sex arbetsgrupper bildats. NGB bevarar växtmaterial som är intressanta för nordisk jordbruk och trädgårdsnäring.

Kategori: Offentlige organisationer | Databaser | Frøavl og frøsamlere

 Programmet för odlad mångfald

Programmet för odlad mångfald, POM, är en nationell satsning för att bättre bevara och nyttja våra kulturväxter. Sveriges Riksdag beslutade redan 2000 att POM skulle genomföras som ett verktyg för att förverkliga Konventionen om biologisk mångfald eller Riokonventionen.

Jordbruksverket ansvarar för POM och Centrum för biologisk mångfald samordnar programmet. Därutöver deltar många organisationer, myndigheter, företag, botaniska trädgårdar och andra.

POM har för närvarande sex olika inventeringsprogram som dammsuger Sverige på bär, frukt, perenner, narcisser och frön.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Offentlige organisationer

 ProSpecieRara

ProSpecieRara ist eine schweizerische, nicht-Profit-orientierte Stiftung. Sie wurde 1982 gegründet, um gefährdete Nutztierrassen und Kulturpflanzen vor dem Aussterben zu bewahren. Spiegelschaf, Wollschwein, Rote Gartenmelde, Goldmöstler und viele andere beleben seither wieder Felder, Höfe und Wiesen.

Als Folge der Artenschutzkonvention von Rio 1992 unterschrieb der Bund das Artenschutzabkommen von Leipzig. Damit verpflichtete sich die Schweiz, sämtliche Ressourcen bei Tieren und Pflanzen zu erhalten. Ein globaler Aktionsplan beschreibt, wie dieser Schutz zu erfolgen hat. In diese Erhaltungsarbeit sind auch die — teilweise vom Bund unterstützten — Tätigkeiten der Stiftung ProSpecieRara eingebettet.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Foreninger

 Public Seed Initiative

The Public Seed Initiative (PSI) is a joint cooperative effort between Cornell University Departments of Plant Breeding and Horticulture, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Inc, and the USDA—Agricultural Research Service’s Plant Genetic Resources Unit in Geneva, NY.

Farmers need varieties that work in their climates, soils and markets. Northeast growers are now dependent on a much narrower range of varieties produced for large farmers and average national growing conditions. Organic farmers, in particular, need varieties that do well in organic farming systems.

Cornell breeders, the USDA’s seed bank staff in Geneva, NY, and the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Inc are working with farmers and seed companies to develop a vegetable breeding and seed production training program that will help improve productivity, profitability and the viability of agriculture in the northeast.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Offentlige organisationer

 Save our Seeds

"Save our Seeds" is dedicated to keeping conventional and organically grown seeds free of genetically modified organisms. In a joint petition 300 organisations representing over 25 million members and 200.000 individual citizens of Europe demand a strict EU law to protect the purity of seeds. Seeds are the kernels of life, the foundation of our food supply and humanities oldest heritage.

Kategori: Foreninger | Frøavl og frøsamlere

 Saving Our Seeds

Our mission is to promote sustainable, ecological, organic vegetable seed production in the Mid-Atlantic and South. Saving Our Seeds provides information, resources, and publications for gardeners, farmers, seed savers, and seed growers.

This site is provided courtesy of Jeff McCormack, founder and previous owner of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, founder and owner of Garden Medicinals and Culinaries, and co-founder of Virginia Plant Savers. Saving Our Seeds provides another path for raising awareness of our threatened genetic resources, and as an additional resource for providing information and knowledge tools for seed saving and seed conservation.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Økologi

 Seed Savers Exchange

Seed Savers Exchange is a nonprofit organization that saves and shares the heirloom seeds of our garden heritage, forming a living legacy that can be passed down through generations.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Foreninger

 Seed Savers Network

The Seed Savers' Network has the following charitable and educational purposes in its deeds...

To develop and promote:

• Educational programmes for the preservation of open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds and the genetic diversity of plant varieties;
• Non-profit seed exchange programmes;
• Agricultural and horticultural programmes with particular emphasis on the propagation of open-pollinated plant varieties;
• Preservation gardens for open-pollinated plant varieties;
• Seed banks for non-hybrid plant varieties;
• Scientific research relating to the above matters, either alone or in conjunction with a public university or other institution.

To Provide:

• Financial and educational assistance to community development projects - local and overseas;
• Open-pollinated seed stock to individuals, groups and communities.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie

 Skrubtudsens have

Skrubtudsen Bufo bufo.

Den lille prins er en af vores vigtigste medarbejdere i haven. Mød ham og de planter han passer i en have på Amager.

Han ved det måske ikke, men haven er også en frøsamler have, hvor gamle sorter bevares og nye skabes.

Kategori: Private sider og blogs | Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie