Fundació Miquel Agustí

The Fundació Miquel Agustí (FMA) is a Catalan agri-food research foundation whose team specialises in the recovery, conservation and improvement of traditional Catalan agricultural varieties. According to its own description, it is a research team placed at the service of the agricultural sector and society at large, working to drive research around traditional Catalan crop varieties and to promote native products of the region. The foundation treats agrobiodiversity as a foremost agricultural and cultural heritage that must be protected from erosion, and as a tool for designing new products based on organoleptic and nutritional quality. The foundation's work spans several areas: conservation of cultivated biodiversity, descriptive sensory analysis through tasting panels, consumer studies, characterisation of traditional varieties, breeding programmes, promotion of quality brands for Catalan food products, recovery of agriculture in natural spaces, social agriculture, new processed products, and technology transfer and scientific dissemination on agrobiodiversity and genetic improvement. It offers services related to its specialisation areas, including research and knowledge transfer in horticulture and traditional Catalan varieties, sensory analysis, genetic improvement, and analysis using spectroscopy techniques. Its accumulated years of experience allow it to offer tailor-made solutions according to each client's needs. The species it works with include onion (Ceba), cabbage (Col), lettuce (Enciam), bean (Mongeta) and tomato (Tomàquet), among others. The foundation is associated with the Banc de Llavors FMA-UPC (FMA-UPC Seed Bank) and the HortaLab project. Its stated ambition is to help the primary sector structure itself as a strategic sector, driving new production and food models that achieve sustainable production and lead to resilient and healthy food models. It operates in Catalonia, Spain, and is described as a Catalan foundation.

The Fundació Miquel Agustí is a Catalan foundation dedicated to agri-food research. Its team specialises in the recovery, conservation and improvement of traditional Catalan agricultural varieties. The foundation considers agrobiodiversity a foremost agricultural and cultural heritage that must be preserved from erosion, and a tool for designing new products based on organoleptic and nutritional quality. It places itself at the service of the sector and citizens to implement R+D+I projects that increase agricultural biodiversity and improve the environmental impacts associated with the agri-food chain. Its ambition is to help the primary sector structure itself as a strategic sector, driving new production and food models that achieve sustainable production and lead to resilient and healthy food models. The foundation's work areas include conservation of cultivated biodiversity, descriptive sensory analysis through tasting panels, consumer studies, characterisation of traditional varieties, breeding programmes, promotion of quality brands for Catalan food products, recovery of agriculture in natural spaces, social agriculture, new processed products, and technology transfer and scientific dissemination on agrobiodiversity and genetic improvement. It offers services related to its specialisation areas, such as research and knowledge transfer in horticulture and traditional Catalan varieties, sensory analysis, genetic improvement, and analysis using spectroscopy techniques. Its accumulated years of experience allow it to offer tailor-made solutions according to each client's needs. The species it works with include onion, cabbage, lettuce, bean and tomato, among others. The foundation is associated with the Banc de Llavors FMA-UPC and the HortaLab project.

A research foundation serving the agricultural sector and society, focused on agrobiodiversity and traditional Catalan crop varieties.

• Research and knowledge transfer in horticulture and traditional Catalan varieties

• Sensory analysis

• Genetic improvement

• Spectroscopy analysis

• Banc de Llavors FMA-UPC

• HortaLab

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