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Adanella RossiUniversità di Pisa
Pisa, 07/07/2017
Embedding crop diversity and networking for local high qualityfood systems
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DIVERSIFOOD
An EU project funded under Horizon 2020
Strengthening a food culture based on agrobiodiversity
local high quality food systems
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ITABINRA
RSPIT
ORC
FiBLPSR
LBI
IPC
ITBQ
UNIBOUNIPI
RSR
Formicablu
ARI
LUKE
CSICRAS
ÖMKiArche Noah
ÖIKOS
21 Partners12 Countries
The Consortium (1)
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The Consortium (2)
involves 21 partners of 12 countries
Chain actors
Other localactors
Consumers / society
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ction
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ion
BIODIVERSE PRODUCTS
GENETIC RESOURCES
BIODIVERSE PRODUCTION
SYSTEMS / PRODUCTS
The main goal of project:
deepening factors and
processes that can
• support the reintroduction
of biodiversity in cropping
systems
• improve its management
• promote a social
appreciation and
economic valorisation of
final food products
The project goal
The overall approach
Knowledge
Organisationalmodels
Institutional, political, legal
aspects
Economicaspects
Social aspects
Cultural aspects
Technic-technologicalcomponents
DIVERSIFIED FOOD
SYSTEMS / FOOD
PRODUCTS
A multi-dimensional
and systemic
approachWP1 - Concepts
and methodologies
WP2 - Multi-actor and on-
farm evaluation
WP3 -Participatory crop improvement for local adaptation
WP4 -Innovative biodiversity
management
WP5 - Social consensus and
market valorisation
WP6 -Dissemination,
training
➢ Multi-actor perspective and
participatory approach
• during the design and the
implementation of the project
➢ Need to combine natural
sciences with social sciences
Enhancing agrobiodiversity:
interaction amongst diverse
perspectives, types of
knowledge, approaches,
paradigms
experimentation and conceptualization of
inter-disciplinarity and trans-disciplinarity
Concepts and methodologies
WP 1
Experimentation on local
species/varieties:
• different environmental
conditions
• social changes in food
requirements and uses
Evaluation for:
• agronomic, processing
properties
• nutritional, healthy and
organoleptic properties
Attention to:
• local food traditions
• local farming systems
• economic sustainability
Multi-actor and on-farm evaluation
WP 2
Develop new approaches to plant breeding and
management:
• methods and tools specifically designed for on-farm
decentralized participatory breeding
importance of interaction amongst different sources
of knowledge/expertise
Improving agro-biodiversity management
WP 3
From in-situ conservation to ‘on-farm management’, within a
communitarian dimension
Focus on the management of seeds
community seed systems / localised seed networks
Exploring the enabling factors:
• strengthening community / network capacity
• raising society awareness of resources values
• economic sustainability
• legal framework (affecting seed reusing, exchanging and selling)
Innovative agrobiodiversity management
WP 4
Need to raise awareness and societal
consensus and appreciation on the market
➢building valorisation strategies:
strengthening and promoting the whole
diversified production-consumption system
Embedding diversity in the food supply chain
WP 5
A comprehensive approach, interesting all the
stages involved:
• a multi-dimensional process
• a multi-actor process
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The framework
Learning processes Information sharing
Knowledge generationPractices consolidation
Case studies on wheat /
bread production:
• 3 Italy
• 1 France
• 1 United Kingdom
Challenges for the future
• Care of practical aspects: quality produce, higher yields
• Legal aspects: new seeds systems, forms of quality guarantee
• Further knowledge generation and spreading – role of
facilitation
• Communication – spreading agrobiodiversity culture out of
the niche
• Networking and territorial embeddedness
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Lessons learnt from the cases
➢ importance of a systemic (holistic) approach towards agrobiodiversity
• explore all the stages involved in tackling with agro-biodiversity
• take into account all the dimensions involved: role of social, cultural, institutional, legal and political factors
• adoption of a multi-actor perspective
• different attitudes towards values and ways of preserving agro-biodiversity, different knowledge, learning processes
participatory approaches, trans-disciplinarity, inter-disciplinarity
• Invest on: knowledge co-creation, facilitation, networking and communication
➢ role of research, in particular participatory action research:
• contributing to co-produce new knowledge, empower stakeholders, re-localise food systems, experiment with new solutions
• pointing out needed changes in the institutional and policy framework
From the project
