Selection, Protection and Promotion of Balkan Food Forest species

Programme 2007 - 2013 Greece - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia IPA CBC (EL-FYROM)

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

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Description (EN):

Forest genetic resources comprise an enormous pool of positive activities that can provide sustainable development and a high standard of life. Up to date, both countries do not exploit their local forest resources to meet their needs in forest fruit food but mostly import them from abroad. As it is well known, the Balkan Peninsula is the heart of biodiversity in Europe and with FOOD FOREST PARKS, the partners intend to capture the variability coming from well adapted forest plants that provide forest fruit food and can also be used for other purposes (eg. chemical and pharmacy industry) in a sustainable way. The basic steps of the project are the following: - Selection of the suitable forest species from Balkan Peninsula (indigenous and naturalized exotic species and varieties) that fruit in accordance to their quality, quantity and adaptability. - Conservation / Protection: all selected species will be transferred to Food Forest Parks (gene banks) as mother plantations in order to test the cloning technique and their pathogen resistance. - Promotion: a) by creating a protocol of cloning of the selected species and varieties; and a profile of their pathogen resistance in industrial plantations and b) by exhibiting the selected species with the establishment of two Food Forest Parks, one for each country placed in central spots also easily accessible to the communities, to attract the interest and sensitivity of public opinion to forests and their products.

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Agriculture and fisheries and forestry Climate change and biodiversity

Partners (2)

Lead Partner: Special Account for Research Funds of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Plant Breeding)

Address: 555 35 Thessaloniki, Greece

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Goce Delcev University, Stip -Faculty of Agriculture

Name: Goce Delcev University, Stip -Faculty of Agriculture

Address: 2000 Stip, North Macedonia

Legal status: n/a

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Goce Delcev University, Stip -Faculty of Agriculture

Selection, Protection and Promotion of Balkan Food Forest species

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Special Account for Research Funds of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Plant Breeding)

Selection, Protection and Promotion of Balkan Food Forest species

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Summary

Project name (EN): Selection, Protection and Promotion of Balkan Food Forest species

Project acronym: FOOD FOREST PARKS

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 405 408.00

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IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, .

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2007 - 2013 Greece - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia IPA CBC (EL-FYROM)

Latest month of project-partner-call data publication

2013-08

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

38 / 38 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

116 / 116 (100%)

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