The Seed Knowledge Hub is an open online repository hosted on the EC-LLD website, developed within Seeds of Growth, an Erasmus+ small-scale partnership in adult education, cofunded by the European Union and coordinated by Semínkovna (Czech Republic) with EC-LLD and SEED Luxembourg as partners.
The Hub brings together guides, technical manuals, case studies and policy materials on seed saving and cultivated diversity. What was included into it was decided on the basis of a capacity gap analysis that reached 868 people across Europe and collected 140 responses from seed savers, community seed bank managers and seed librarians.
The collection now holds over 100 resources and its growing thanks to the contributions of EC-LLD Members and the broader community.
If your organisation has produced materials that others could use, write to info@liberatediversity.org and we will add it. Material in any European language is welcome.
Explore our featured collections below, or use the filters to narrow the Hub by project, language and type of resource (presentations, videos, publications).
Seeds of Growth is an Erasmus+ partnership (September 2025 – December 2026) coordinated by Semínkovna with EC-LLD and SEED Luxembourg, working on community seed banks and seed saving in Europe. Here you will find the Capacity Gap Analysis, the recordings and slides of the Community Seed Bank Labs, and the presentations from the Prague meeting. In English and Czech.
LiveSeeding (2022–2026) is a Horizon Europe project coordinated by FiBL Europe, with 37 partners in 16 countries and a network of 17 Living Labs, to bring diverse organic cultivars to organic farming. This collection gathers its practice abstracts and handbooks, among them seed drying and storage, hot water treatment and organic heterogeneous material.
Since 2005, farmers, seed savers, researchers and activists meet at the Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum. This collection holds the final reports of the recent editions, from Budapest 2022 to Scandicci 2026, and the presentations given in the Scandicci workshops.
Desk study examining links between agrobiodiversity and health; compares institutional, technology‑centred (biofortification) and civil‑society discourses; highlights nutrient decline, varietal differences, and the need for holistic agroecological approaches.
ECPGR (2017) concept proposing a European strategy for on-farm conservation of PGRFA, with five priorities: inventory, indicators, good practices, agro-diversity sites, and legal/technical solutions.
Analysis and demonstration of landscape-based hotspots of plant, animal and forest genetic resources, proposing integrated conservation, indicator development, stakeholder-led management and local value chains.
A 2025 manifesto urging European municipalities and governments to prioritise cultivated biodiversity in local food policies, with policy recommendations, a 2050 vision, and 32 practical actions across governance, production, procurement and waste.
Brochure (June 2025) by Brot für die Welt and HEKS/EPER linking the EU seed marketing reform to the right to food; analyses Commission proposal and Parliament position, and recommends measures to protect farmers’ rights and agrobiodiversity.
Full text of the FAO International Treaty establishing a Multilateral System for access and benefit-sharing of plant genetic resources, Farmers’ Rights, governance and implementation measures.
Practical, step-by-step guidance on drying, measuring humidity (eRH), packaging and storing vegetable seeds for organic small-scale and on-farm production to maximise vigour and shelf life.
Policy brief proposing a legal definition of organic plant breeding and urging EU-level extension of adapted DUS/VCU rules to register Organic Varieties and ensure OHM notification across species.
Community Seed Bank Labs – Workshop funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth (Project ID: KA210-ADU-1727BE52)
117-minute Seeds of Growth workshop showing practical operations of seed libraries, community seed banks and distributed seed networks in Czechia, Georgia and Hungary; includes seed quality, swaps, community engagement and policy links.
Community Seed Bank Labs – Workshop funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth (Project ID: KA210-ADU-1727BE52)
Workshop recording with practical guidance on harvesting, drying, cleaning, storing and testing seeds for community seed banks and seed savers.
Community Seed Bank Labs – Workshop funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth (Project ID: KA210-ADU-1727BE52)
Video of a workshop (25 Mar 2026) on international and EU seed laws and what they mean for Community Seed Banks, covering the Treaty/SMTA, Nagoya, UPOV, EU seed marketing reform, conservation varieties and practical implications.
DIVERSIFOOD (Horizon2020) presents nine key concepts to embed crop diversity into regional food systems, covering agrobiodiversity, quality, sustainability, food democracy, participatory research and resilience.
Collective DIVERSIFOOD publication defining nine concepts to guide research and action for diverse, resilient, locally adapted high-quality food systems.
DIVERSIFOOD’s nine key concepts define a transdisciplinary, multi-actor approach to cultivated biodiversity, food quality, collective seed management and resilient local food systems.
DIVERSIFOOD (2017) outlines nine key concepts to integrate crop diversity into agriculture and local food systems, covering agrobiodiversity, food quality, sustainability, food democracy, participatory research and resilience.
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The Seed Knowledge Hub has been developed within the context of the Erasmus+ project Seeds of Growth: Strengthening Community Seed Banks and Sustainable Seed-Saving Practices in Europe (Project ID: KA210-ADU-1727BE52)
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