QUINOA : Dynamics aspects of Quinoa biodiversity management

Joint research exchange programme

Date de début de projet :

15/06/2009

Date de fin du projet :

14/06/2012

Objectifs

The project aims at identifying new practices of managing varietal diversity based on interaction at different levels of farmer, commercial, and institutional seed systems.

Localisation

Chili
 France
Italie

Description

France and Italy have developed researches on Quinoa with Chile separately and the IRSES proposal is an opportunity to enforce coordination within E. U. to achieve jointly common objectives for in situ biodiversity conservation within a better understanding of nutritional and genetic properties of Quinoa that can be recognized by European markets. These exchanges will benefit to each partners interested in the importance of Quinoa for food security with a safety approach.

Partenaires

CEAZA-Chili
UNIBO-Italie

Equipe

D. Bazile
M. Bélem
J.P. Muller

Financement

Commission européenne