CULTIVAR at the 5th National Symposium on Fruit Growing
CULTIVAR project was present at the 5th National Symposium on Fruit Culture (https://v-snfruticultura.webnode.pt/) that took place in Alcobaça, in the Montebelo monastery of Hotel Alcobaça, on February 9th and 10th. Elsa Baltazar, phD student at the University of Coimbra, within the framework of the CULTIVAR project, and in collaboration with the Pedro Nunes Institute, presented […]
CULTIVAR on the walk to the source of the Côa River
On February 11th, Anabela Paula shared some of the results obtained in the CULTIVAR project with the participants of the walk carried out under the initiative aBEIRar “A raia: contraband of sciences and cultures” organized by the Municipality of Sabugal and CIM Beiras and Serra da Estrela. As a support material, a flyer was elaborated […]
CULTIVAR nas DCV.talks da Universidade de Coimbra
On February 13th, the researcher Ricardo Veiga Leitão participated in the DCV.talks of the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra where he presented some of the results of the evaluation of soil health in a gradient of intensity of land use that is being developed under CULTIVAR.
CULTIVAR in the Biosfera Podcast – How to Plant a Forest
“How to plant a forest.” Listen to the intervention of the program coordinator integrated in CULTIVAR IC&DT, Helena Freitas, in the Biosfera Podcast. Apple Podcast https://bit.ly/36bwwFi Spotify https://spoti.fi/365Y8Mc
CULTIVAR in the Biosfera Podcast – Diseases among Species
“Diseases among species”. Listen to the intervention of the executive director of the integrated program in IC&DT CULTUVAR, Joana Costa, in the Biosphere Podcast, where she contextualized the presence of the quarantine bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in our territory in the face of the current state of art, epidemiology and management measures applied. In this program […]
Greensavers Interviews – Joana Costa and Sílvia Castro
Joana Costa, CEO of Cultivar, and Sílvia Castro, researcher at CULTIVAR, were interviewed, together with Teresa Ferreira, by Greensavers on agricultural sustainability. Know everything in the last printed edition of Greensavers, to whom we thank you for the invitation and the opportunity to address such an important and relevant theme in the context of the […]
Transfer of Knowledge | Postharvest conservation of chestnut
On December 7th, the knowledge transfer session took place | Postharvest conservation of chestnut under the Cultivar project. The producers who came to this session in addition to the presentation of Engineer Mário, also knew the laboratory of Physical Chemistry and the Laboratory of Sensory Analysis. Finally, they also tasted the chestnuts preserved in CATAA. […]
Master’s Dissertation – Inês Leão
On December 2nd, Inês Leão defended his Master’s thesis entitled “Effect of green infrastructure on pollinators and pollination in almond orchards”. The defense was met with the conviction of Elisabete Figueiredo of the Instituto Superior de Agronomia! Developed under the Cultivar project and the Operation Pollinator initiative, this Dissertation of the Master’s Degree in Applied […]
CULTIVAR at the III National Symposium on Dried Fruits
The Cultivar project was present at the “III National Symposium of Dried Fruits” which took place in the auditorium of the Regional Directorate of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Algarve (DRAP Algarve) from November 14th to 16th. The researcher Vanessa Vasconcelos presented the work on the Nutritional Analysis of 16 varieties of Hazelnut from Colonia […]
NMS recruits volunteers for clinical study under CULTIVAR
We are recruiting volunteers for two clinical nutritional studies for the incorporation of strawberry tree or chestnut in the diet and to know the effect on health and intestinal microbiota. This work is in collaboration with NOVA Medical School – Faculty of Medical Sciences under the F4F project – Forest For Future and Cultivar, both […]
