News & Events

Quinoa coping with drought, heat & salt stress

Watch our coordinator Sandra schmöckel presenting our project and explaining why some plants like QUINOA are better able to cope with drought, heat and salt stress aiming to prepare agriculture for extreme weather events and contribute to food security.

Conference contribution at ICARDA

Our Ilham Abidi presented our project at ICARDA in the conference of neglected and under utilized crops . Her presentation was "integrating quinoa into olive based agroforestry: A comprehensive assessement of system productivity and quinoa agronomic traits"

ICARDA's “Conference on Innovations for Sustainable Production of NUS in Mena Region”

ICARDA is organizing a very exciting conference. The conference will take place on February 5-6, 2024, in Rabat, Morocco, and virtually.

 

https://www.icarda.org/media/news/conference-innovations-sustainable-production-nus-mena-region

Save the date: July 24 - 26, 2024

ATSAF Workshop Scholarships

for the transdisciplinary workshop “Sustainable Use and Conservation of Natural Resources”, December 4-7, 2023 in Bonn

Application Deadline passed on Nov. 7, 2023

24. Jan 2023 in Goug, Touggourt province.

Quinoa Cultivation in the Oasis with ITDAS, Université Kasdi Merbah Ouargla, picture taken from the Living Lab

20. Jan 2023

Quinoa4Med's training workshop in Noel on the cultivation of 'quinoa' under the supervision of the Biotechnological Center in Bordj Cedria

27th - 29th of July 2022 at CBBC in Tunisia

Day 1: Consortiums-Meeting
Day 2: Stakeholder-Roundtables
Day 3: Excursion to the Living Labs

Field Excursions - Contact:

Halima KHALED (DZA), Ilham ABIDI (MOR)
Dr Arafet MANAA (TUN), Dr Susana VILARIÑO (ESP)

Quinoa4Med Partner auf Messen und Veranstaltungen

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2024

24-26 July 2024Quinoa SymposiumStuttgart-HohenheimUHOH, CBBC, AS, CIRAD, CBGP

2023

3-7 July 2023International Society for Seed Science (ISSS) 14th ISSS biennial conference: Molecular Aspects of Seed Dormancy & GerminationParisUPM; UHOH
Mar 2023Quinoa practices management workshopMoroccoIAV
Mar 20238th World Quinoa CongressBoliviaCBGP, CIRAD, UHOH
20.02.2023International Green Week BerlinBerlin, DEUHOH
08-10 Feb 2023Arab Quinoa Forum "Quinoa Value Chain" JordanCBBC, IAV, ITDAS

2022

13–17.06. 2022EMBO Workshop. Molecular responses of plants facing climate changeMontpellier, FRCIRAD
02.07.2022"Open doors" at the University of HohenheimStuttgart, DEUHOH

Munich, May 14, 2023

Founding member of the German Quinoa Association, Jun.-Prof. Sandra Schmöckel raised awareness for the high potential of quinoa crops and value chains in times of climate change.

Arab Quinoa Forum 08.02.2023

Halima, Ilham & Arafet will present the Quinoa4Med Project in Amman, Jordan.

Our Moroccan Partners are on Air

Ilham Abidi works together with Prof. Dr. Si Bennasser Alaoui at the Agricultural and Veterinary Institute Hassan II, 7.8.2022