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DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress

10 December 2018 @ 10:00 - 11 December 2018 @ 16:30

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress:

Name: DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress
Start: 2018-12-10T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-12-11T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Couvent des Jacobins, Center of Congress in Rennes, France

Cultivating diversity and food quality

The DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress was held in Rennes on 10-12 December 2018. During the event, the project results and key lessons were be shared, covering 5 key concepts connected with crop diversity for resilient sustainable food systems:

Underutilized/forgotten crops: multi-actor and on farm evaluation
New approaches of plant breeding for diversified and sustainable farming systems
Community biodiversity management
Diversity and sustainability within food systems: new relationships among actors
Paradigm shift for muti-actor and transdisciplinary research

A field visit and two practical workshops were also organized during the last day of the event.

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress was opened for external oral speakers and poster presentations from Europe and US, to better connect sister projects and researches with DIVERSIFOOD outputs. Finding together new ways to promote diversity and food quality on both sides of the Atlantic.

Proceedings & Useful links

The DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress Proceedings are now available here!

Find out more on the event website

Download the programme of the event

Download the concept note of the Liveseed workshop: from trait-based to systemsbased organic breeding

Download the Concept note of the Workshop on financing participatory and multi-actor research

Read the article Community seed banks: hubs for growing genetic diversity on Fridtjof Nansen Institute website

Read the article Building Bridges with European Seed Communities on Organic Seed Alliance website

Download the posters produced for the Final Congress

Find below all the presentations of the Final Congress

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Introduction – Véronique Chable from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 1 – Diversity and sustainability within food systems – Michel Pimbert from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 2 – Underutilizated/forgotten crops: multi-actor and on farm evaluation from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 3 – New approaches of plant breeding for diversified and sustainable farming systems – Isabelle Goldringer from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 3 – Evolutionary Participatory Breeding of bread wheat for organic farming in Italy – Bettina Bussi and Matteo Petitti from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 3 – Culinary Breeding – Julie Dawson from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 3 – Poster presentations from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 4 – From on farm conservation to Community biodiversity management – Riccardo Bocci from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 4 – Tools for community biodiversity management – Regine Andersen and Bela Bartha from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 4 – From variety selection practices to ecological justice – Corentin Hecquet from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 4 – Poster presentations from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 5 – Value chains studies – Bernadette Oehen & Adanella Rossi from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 6 – Paradigm shift for muti-actor and transdisciplinary research – Edwin Nuijten from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 6 – NOVIC – Bill Tracy from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 6 – Poster presentations from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 7 – The US landscape of Organic and Ecological Seed – Micaela Colley, from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Session 7 – Cultivating diverse food systems in the shell of the uniform – Phil Howard from diversifoodproject

DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress – Conclusion – Véronique Chable from diversifoodproject

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