DYNAmic seed networks for managing European diVERSITY
Date de début de projet
01/11/2017Date de fin du projet
30/10/2020Objectifs
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.
Localisation
France, Italy, Belgium, Hungary
Description
DYNAVERSITY will facilitate co-construction between actors (e.g. farmers, gardeners, natural parks, seed craftsmen, community seed banks, researchers, ex situ actors, consumers) and establish new forms of seed networking, socio-environmental knowledge and practices. By creating the Sharing Knowledge and Experience Platform (SKEP), representing stakeholders coming from research, ex situ networks and communities of practice, and taking into account the respect of the singularities of each of the actors, DYNAVERSITY will facilitate 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.
To achieve the above, DYNAVERSITY will integrate Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) world represented by natural parks to on farm and on garden communities. Specific attention will be paid to map stakeholders, actors and sites and through in depth case study analysis suggesting new sustainable links and partnerships for in situ conservation. DYNAVERSITY will also promote an enabling institutional framework that will allow the creation of new dynamic seed systems. Raising public awareness will be a crucial issue for DYNAVERSITY addressed with specific and targeted communication products adapted to different target groups. DYNAVERSITY will also support seed fairs and Let’ Liberate Diversity communities in order to promote knowledge and seed sharing between stakeholders
Partenaires
Cirad, Inra, Rete Semi Rurale (Italy) ; Coordination Européenne Liberonladiversité (Belgium), Univ Liège (Belgique), ESSR Kft (Hungary) Réseau International Urgenci (France), Federazione Italiana Parchi e Reserve Naturali (Italy), Formicablu Srl (Italy)
Equipe
Dynamiques de la diversité, sociétés et environnements (DDSE)
Financement
UE H2020 SFS-04-2017
Mots-Clés
Diversité génétique, approche multi-acteurs, systèmes semenciers, conservation in-situ et ex-situ, apparentés sauvages, CWR