Semillas Abiertas
Bioleft lanzó la campaña de tomate criollo 2025/2026 con un taller virtual que reunió a evaluadorxs de más de 25 localidades a lo largo del país. La propuesta, en clave de ciencia abierta y ciudadana, refuerza el registro colaborativo y la circulación del conocimiento para tomar mejores decisiones de selección y multiplicación de semillas.
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El martes 26 de agosto, el equipo de extensión de Bioleft visitó a Julia Ríos, productora de semillas de Minka-Semillera (Florencio Varela) y evaluadora de tomate, para compartir un balance de la campaña anterior y planificar la temporada 2024-2025. La reunión se desarrolló en un clima de confianza y cercanía, en su propia casa, donde se conversó sobre logros, dificultades y próximos pasos.
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En el marco del Coloquio Internacional Perspectivas de la Ecología en América Latina (ver más), Bioleft participó de la mesa “Hacia sostenibilidades compartidas: aprendizajes desde experiencias colaborativas en Latinoamérica”, reflexionando sobre los desafíos y aprendizajes en torno al intercambio y mejoramiento de semillas abiertas en Argentina.
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Durante esta campaña llevamos adelante de manera colaborativa una red de evaluación participativa de maíces, con ensayos distribuidos en Junín, Entre Ríos y el sudeste de Córdoba. La red busca generar conocimiento colectivo sobre el comportamiento de distintas variedades de maíz, con foco en materiales desarrollados por agricultorxs y en híbridos no transgénicos de interés para sistemas de producción orgánica y agroecológica.
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This past April, we held the closing workshop for the 2024–2025 campaign of the collaborative evaluation project of Creole tomatoes. Once again, we came together from different regions and experiences to celebrate a collective process that continues to grow, driven by the commitment of gardeners, agroecological producers, researchers, students, and defenders of open-pollinated seeds.
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As part of the “Al Rescate del Tomate criollo” project [“To the Rescue of Creole Tomato”], which seeks to recover tomato flavour through the collection, exchange and collaborative breeding of creole tomatoes, the Closing workshop of Creole Tomato 2023/2024 season was held virtually on June 26. More than 30 grower-breeders from different regions of the country participated in the workshop”.
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As part of the Bioleft’s participatory breeding experiments, Enrico Cresta, an organic farmer and member of Bioleft, selects and develops his own open-pollinated (OPV) and GMO-free corn variety, adapted and improved to the organic conditions of his “Altos Verdes” establishment, located in the Cordoba province.
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On November 21, the first participatory tomato breeding workshop was held as part of the “Bioleft, participatory innovation in seeds” project, under the Citizen Science program led by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCyT). In this project, Bioleft and Minka, an agroecological seed production cooperative, are working to evaluate different varieties of tomato, with the aim of developing seeds that are sustainable and of high quality.
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On Tuesday, October 3, we gathered with our parnters from Minka in his house of seeds at CEDEPO, located in the nearside of Florencio Varela. Minka semillera is an organization of woman who produce seeds on farms in Guernica and Florencio Varela Buenos Aires Province) and, organized as a cooperative, they aim to generate availability of diverse and resilient seeds for family farmers of the peri urban area of Buenos Aires.
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On Tuesday, May 17, the participatory maize breeding workshop took place at INTA Pergamino. During the activity, producer-breeders and researchers […]
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