Objectives

DYNAVERSITY facilitates exchange and integration of scientific as well as practical knowledge on how to best manage diversity in agriculture and in the entire food chain, restoring evolutionary and adaptation processes.

The objectives of the project are:

• Generating a knowledge base on the characteristics of in situ genetic resources, good practices on conservation and management issues;
• Mapping actors and stakeholders and through case study analysis identifying better practices;
• Promoting new sustainable links and partnerships between European conservation stakeholders – crosscutting academic-civic-political-private actors – by training and mutual learning programs aiming at diminishing the divide between in situ and ex situ conservation efforts;
• Integrating Natural Parks activities and policies within the on farm and in garden conservation realm of action;
• Raising public awareness on the importance of genetic resources, also involving Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) – through science cafes, citizen science, Let’s Liberate Diversity meetings, demonstration sites, seed exchange networking, photo exhibitions, video animations, concept cards and agrobiodiversity corner in specialised magazines
• Promoting an enabling institutional framework for new dynamic seed systems and strategies for innovative, participatory and integrated governance in the PGRFA (Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture) communities, aiming at an increased use of genetic resources from in situ sources in breeding activities and in the food chain.