Semillas Abiertas
La segunda visita a la Quinta de Julia Ríos de la Cooperativa Minka en Florencio Varela se centró en la evaluación del estado de los cultivos y la infraestructura, buscando asegurar una óptima campaña de semillas abiertas.
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El pasado lunes 20 de octubre, en el marco del Día Mundial de la Alimentación, llevamos a cabo el conversatorio virtual “El maíz como puente: saberes, territorios y diversidad”, para compartir la trayectoria del maíz Amancay y relanzar el trabajo de la Red de Maiceros.
Participaron más de 30 productores, técnicos, investigadores, estudiantes y organizaciones vinculadas al desarrollo de semillas y la producción, conformando un espacio diverso de intercambio y reflexión colectiva.
El lunes 20 de octubre a las 18 hs te esperamos en un conversatorio virtual para compartir la trayectoria del maíz Amancay en el marco de la Red de Maiceros de Bioleft e invitarte a ser parte de una nueva fase de este espacio abierto de innovación en semillas.
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On September 11th, Almendra Cremaschi, director of Bioleft, gave a virtual seminar as part of the debate on seed intellectual property on the Organic Seed Alliance platform. The meeting was open to the community of organic, agroecological, and family farmers who produce in the United States, and other people from different parts of the world participated as well.
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At Bioleft, we are pleased with Congress’s insistence on the University Financing Law.
We are navigating a situation that affects the present and future of thousands of people: the drastic defunding of the national scientific and technological system.
Bioleft launched the 2025/2026 tomato campaign with a virtual workshop that brought together evaluators from more than 25 locations across the country. The proposal, based on open science and citizen science, reinforces collaborative recording and the circulation of knowledge to make better decisions on seed selection and multiplication.
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On August 26th, the Bioleft outreach team visited Julia Ríos, tomato evaluator and seed producer at Minka-Semillera (Florencio Varela) to share an assessment of the previous season and plan for the 2024-2025 season. The meeting took place in an atmosphere of trust and closeness, at her own home, where they discussed achievements, difficulties, and next steps.
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As part of Bioleft’s commitment to training professionals committed to sustainable agriculture and the production of situated knowledge, we are sharing the doctoral thesis of Almendra Cremaschi, director of Bioleft, from the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences UNLP – FCAyF, entitled “Transitions to sustainability in Argentina’s seed system,”
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María Laura Bravo, a member of Bioleft and also professor, researcher, and extension agent at the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences of the National University of La Plata (UNLP), participated in the program Bicivilizados on radiocolmena.com.
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¡We are happy to share that Bioleft was one of the projects selected in the 2024 Call for Proposals of the Institutional Recognition Program (PRI) of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM)!
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