Im Jahr 2002 kam in Indien erstmals gentechnisch verändertes Baumwollsaatgut auf den Markt. Es verspricht Schutz gegen den gefürchteten Baumwollkapselbohrer. Zunächst sieht alles nach einer Erfolgsstory aus: weniger Pestizideinsatz bei gleichzeitig höheren Erträgen. Bereits nach wenigen Jahren treten negative Begleiterscheinungen auf. Bioanbau wäre eine Alternative. Aber es gibt kaum GVO-freie Sorten. Die traditionelle Züchtung wurde vernachlässigt und muss erst wieder aufgebaut werden. Seit 2011 leitet FiBL-Mitarbeiterin Monika Messmer Züchtungsprojekte in Indien. Im Video schildert sie die wechselvolle Geschichte des Biobaumwollanbaus in Indien.
Multimedia
Video-Documentation Organic Cotton in India
Hans Peter Jost has published third parts of his video documentation about the topic organic cotton in India (in german).
Monika Messmer, FiBL – Discusses the ‘Green Cotton Project’, India
At Textile Exchange’s 2013 annual conference in Istanbul, we interviewed 5 people working on various seed projects around the world, all with the overarching aim of improving farmers’ access to organic and non-GMO cottonseed. Monika Messmer (FiBL) speaks about her activities within the “Green Cotton Project”. The videos have been financed by Inditex and produced by Oğuzhan Başoğlu, Zafer Akınç, Hamdi Karakaya and Yunus Emre Boylu.
To view the videos, please click here.
Symposium «Participatory Research to foster Innovation in Agriculture»
Over 70 experts and project partners took part in the symposium «Participatory Research to foster Innovation in Agriculture» at ETH Zürich on the 28th August 2014. The event was organized by FiBL and hosted at ETH by the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center. The main conclusions from the discussion were, that participatory research not only has to focus on the farmers and researchers, but at the same time on all other stakeholders of the value chain, including marketing and consumers.
For further information, please download the report of the event:
For viewing the presentations of the Symposium, please download the following files:
- Melanie Paschke_IDP Bridges
- Urs Niggli_FiBL
- Christian Pohl_Methods for coproducing knowledge_ETHZ
- D.Neri_Participatory versus conventional approaches in agricultural research_UNIVPM
- Edith Lammerts can Bueren_Challenges of Participatory plant breeding in Europe_WUR
- S.S. Patil_Participatory cultivar evaluation and breeding for organic cotton in India_UAS Dharwad
For further information about the Symposium event please consider:
- Media release: Participatory research – an efficient tool to empower farmers and foster innovation
- Video:
Further information and some images from the learning event are available here» (in English) and here» (in German).