Tag: mejoramiento participativo

🌱 Semillas, saberes y resistencias: Bioleft y Minka en el Coloquio  Internacional Perspectivas de la Ecología en América Latina 

June 30, 2025
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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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Closing of the 2024–2025 Campaign: Learnings, Flavors, and Community Around Creole Tomatoes

May 16, 2025
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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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Closing of Creole tomato 2023/2024 season. “Working for participatory breeding”

July 4, 2024
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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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Seed production workshop at Minka 

December 8, 2023
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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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Women producers-breeders building food sovereignty

October 3, 2023
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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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