DIVERSIFOOD project (EU H2020, contract 633571)
This collective publication from the DIVERSIFOOD project presents nine core concepts to promote food diversity by embedding crop diversity into agriculture and connecting it to local high-quality food systems. It outlines a multi-stakeholder, transdisciplinary approach that links seed-to-plate actors and combines theoretical and practical perspectives. Key themes include the diversity of food systems, food quality, sustainability, food democracy, community governance of agro-biodiversity, participatory and collaborative research methods, transdisciplinarity and paradigm change, co-evolutionary processes between crops and social systems, and the role of knowledge and networks in sustaining diversity. The document describes how these concepts support local innovation, new biodiversity management models, seed and seedling production methods, introduction of new crops and populations, and market development for healthy, tasty local products. It positions resilience of food systems as emerging from the integration of these concepts and highlights the project’s multi-partner European consortium and H2020 support.
Key topics: agrobiodiversity, food diversity, community seed systems, food quality, resilience, participatory research, transdisciplinarity
