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.
Presentation on genebanks, CIMMYT collections, Plant Treaty governance, IP impacts and data gaps, and the need for in situ conservation and community stewardship.
Presentation on participatory plant population development and seed stewardship to increase crop genetic diversity and resilience in low-input Croatian farming.
Presentation describing Oct 2025–May 2026 activities to preserve Balkan agrobiodiversity: exhibitions, seed exchanges, a national plant genetic resources network, and trainings to establish local seed banks.
Presentation on gaps and pathways to integrate formal and farmers’ seed systems in Armenia, highlighting regulatory, institutional and knowledge barriers and proposing policy recognition, support for local seeds, and collaboration.
Slide presentation on Moldova’s agricultural context and proposals to protect farmers’ seed rights through community seed banks, capacity building, and stronger international legal protections (ITPGRFA Art.9, UNDROP).
Presentation on community-based seed systems in Tajikistan: history, threats from hybrid imports, and proposals to establish community seed banks, promote farmer seed custodians (especially women), training and exchange activities.
Presentation on EU deregulation of NGT plants: timeline, trilogue outcomes (NGT1 treated as conventional, limited labelling, no monitoring), pipeline and cultivation status, legal challenge options and suggested actions for NGOs, breeders and consumers.
Presentation on how PVP, patents and NGTs shape maize breeding, seed industry consolidation, barriers for small breeders (DUS/VCU, registration), and advocacy for breeders’ exemption, regional and community-supported breeding.
Slide presentation (24 May 2026) by NO PATENTS ON SEEDS! summarising legal background, recent patents on classical breeding and NGTs, risks for breeders, and policy recommendations to clarify exclusion of classical breeding from patentability.
Presentation reviewing EU Plant Variety Protection (Council Reg. 2100/94), its review and enforcement issues, industry enforcement demands, and the role of UPOV in EU free trade agreements with examples from negotiations.
ARCHE NOAH presents participatory tomato breeding work in Austria using open-source ToBRFV resistance, breeding objectives, patent challenges, available resistant materials, and planned resistance testing (2026–2027).
Report showing how EPO patents circumvent Rule 28(2) EPC for conventionally bred plants, with case examples and proposed legal fixes including a full breeders’ exemption.
Presentation on the Community Seed House concept: definitions, functions, coordination, funding, and implications of the new EU PRM regulation for community seed initiatives, with objectives for 2026–2030.
Five-step practical guide to create a community seed house: found an association, save local seeds, run training/events, build a seed network, and establish a seed house (SEED Luxembourg, Oct 2026).
Presentation on linking community seed banks with local communities: Rete Semi Rurali’s CSB Diversitas, manuals and tools, the Florentine Organic District case, participatory approaches and practical takeaways for replication.
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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)
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Dům zahraniční spolupráce (DZS). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
