ECPGR Leafy Vegetables Working Group
Recent events
The second meeting of the ECPGR Leafy Vegetables Working Group took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 8-9 October 2013 [more info] [link to Archive]
Previous years [link to Archive]
Working Group operative documents
Other working documents and publications
Documents developed by the Working Group and publications of interest. [link to Archive]
Background information
In May 2000, in Vila Real, Portugal, the ECPGR Vegetables Network Coordinating Group recommended also extending collaborative activities to Solanaceae, Cucurbits and Leafy Vegetables and included these crops within the Network's mandate.
The ad hoc Group on Leafy Vegetables met for the first time during the ECPGR Vegetables Network meeting in Skierniewice, Poland, May 2003 (see: meeting report [here]. Experts of these crops were able to discuss opportunities of cooperation within ECPGR. It was concluded that the Leafy Vegetables Group would focus on the most important crops, i.e. lettuce, spinach and Cichorium and their wild relatives.
A proposal to establish a formal ECPGR Working Group on Leafy Vegetables was prepared and endorsed by the ECPGR Steering Committee in October 2003. The first meeting of the formal Working Group was held in Olomouc, Check Republic, 13-14 October 2005.
