Relevant conference on “GLUTEN FREE WHEAT?” held in Bologna on May 13, 2016 by Accademia Nazionale di Agricoltura.
Open Fields at the Conference “Sapiensa e bon’na smensa i fan pien’na la cardensa”
Silvia Folloni and Antonio Rossetti will participate as speakers at the Conference “Sapiensa e bon’na smensa i fan pien’na la cardensa” that will be held in Varano de’ Melegari (Pr) next 28th of April. Silvia and Antonio will report about AmicoGrano project and flour technology characteristics.
Open Fields at the Conference “Un gusto ripieno di storia e ripieno di salute, la pasta ripiena in Emilia Romagna.”
Roberto Ranieri will participate as invited speaker at the Conference “Un gusto ripieno di storia e ripieno di salute, la pasta ripiena in Emilia Romagna” that will be held in Bologna next 9th of April. Roberto will report about the fluor and semolina use in filled pasta.
Innovation potential and impact of ancient varieties. Promotion strategies for the durum wheat variety Senatore Cappelli.
A new article by Open Fields is on-line on Pastaria, digital version (n. 1/2016).
The article, entitled “Innovation potential and impact of ancient varieties. Promotion strategies for the durum wheat variety Senatore Cappelli”, was written by Silvia Folloni, Ilaria Mazzoli, Rorberto Ranieri and Giacomo Zanni.
To read the article, download the journal at the following link http://pastaria.it/download/116/
“Geography of durum wheat cultivation”: a new article by Open Fields on PASTARIA
The article, written by Roberto Ranieri, was published last November on Pastaria and Pastaria Inetrnational. The article describes the geography of durum wheat cultivation in the world.
To read the article go to the document section of our website.
New Book Releases
We would like to bring to your attention two interesting books edited by Pentàgora:
1. “I frumenti”, by Oriana Porfiri (in italian);
2. “L’origine delle piante coltivate” by Nikolaj Vavilov. Italian translation by Caterina Fiannacca of the book written in 1926 by the famous Russian scientist. Oriana Porfiri was responsible for the scientific content.
Final AMicoGrano conference
The final conference of “AMicoGrano” project was a great success. The project aimed at studying the mycotoxin contamination in ancient and modern varieties of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum var. durum Desf.), soft wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and ancient species (Triticum monococcum L., Triticum turgidum var. dicoccum L., Triticum spelta L.), grown under conventional and organic farming techniques to identify varieties showing higher adaptability and fusarium head blight resistance under organic farming conditions.
Find the presentation given by the project’s partners (only in Italian) in the “documents” section.
Final AMicoGrano conference
The final conference of the “AMicoGrano” project will be held on November 26th 2015 at the Santa Elisabetta centre (Parma University Campus). AMicoGrano project was funded by Regione Emilia Romagna (bando zona sisma 2013) and cofunded by Open Fields srl. During the conference – organized by Open Fields and the Dept. of Food Science of Parma University – the results achieved by the project will be illustrated and discussed by the project partners. The welcome speech will be given by the University Rector Loris Borghi, followed by Simona Caselli – Councillor for Agriculture of Emilia Romagna Region – who will focus on research policy. More talks about research in agriculture by Paola Battilani (University of Piacenza) and Marina Carcea (Aistec), and on business perspectives of ancient grains by Silvio Grassi (Molino Grassi), will pave the way for an interesting discussion.
Download the program here. Don’t miss the conference!!
Open Fields at the Conference to celebrate 100 years of Senatore Cappelli Durum wheat
Roberto Ranieri will participate as invited speaker at the Conference “1915-2015 Il grano duro Senatore Cappelli compie Cent’anni″ that will be held in Foggia next 19th of November. Roberto, together with Professor Giacomo Zanni from Ferrara University, will report about innovation and impact of ancient grains and old wheat varieties.
Open Fields at the Foro International de Agricultura Sostenible, Mexico
Roberto Ranieri will participate as invited speaker at the “Foro International de Agricultura Sostenible″ that will be held in Ciudad Obregón (México) next 10th of September. Roberto will report about the world durum wheat market.