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).
participatory breeding
15th Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum – Scandicci 2026 – Final report
Final report of the 15th Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum (May 2026, Scandicci) summarising workshops on EU seed law reform, NGTs, patents, seed systems, community seed initiatives, Living Labs and festival activities.
14th Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum – Luxembourg 2025 – Final report
Final report of the 14th Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum (4–6 Sep 2025, Luxembourg): 123 participants discussed EU seed law reform, UNDROP, patents, NGTs, participatory breeding, seed health, community seed networks and next steps for advocacy and practice.
11th Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum – Budapest 2022 – Final report
Final report of the 11th Let’s Liberate Diversity! Forum (Budapest, 2022) documenting workshops, outcomes and resources on seeds, agrobiodiversity, EU seed policy, patents, participatory breeding and community seed systems.
Approches innovantes pour intégrer la diversité dans les systèmes alimentaires : Les résultats de DIVERSIFOOD, du champ à l’assiette (Brochure #6)
Summary of DIVERSIFOOD results presenting 10 approaches to integrate cultivated biodiversity into food systems: on‑farm evaluation, participatory breeding, valorisation, multi‑actor networks and community seed banks.
Promouvoir un environnement favorable à la gestion collective de la biodiversité cultivée en Europe
Policy recommendations from DIVERSIFOOD to support collective management of cultivated biodiversity in Europe, including legal harmonisation, support for community seed systems and participatory seed innovation.
Supportive Policy Frameworks for Dynamic AgroBioDiversity Management Networks
DYNAVERSITY policy brief calling for EU policy to support dynamic, networked on-farm management of agrobiodiversity through coordination, funding, participatory breeding and alignment with CAP, Farm to Fork and ITPGRFA.
9 key-concepts for food diversity
Collective DIVERSIFOOD publication defining nine key concepts to guide embedding crop diversity and multi-actor innovation for resilient, locally adapted high-quality food systems.
Strengthening the economic sustainability of community seed banks. A sustainable approach to enhance agrobiodiversity in the production systems in low-income countries
Discusses how community seed banks can conserve local varieties and improve agrobiodiversity by enhancing economic sustainability through legal recognition, market integration, partnerships and financing models.
Community Seed Banks in China: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects
Systematic review of 27 community seed banks in China (2020), expanding the conceptual framework with two new functions, presenting three cases, and giving practical policy recommendations to strengthen seed systems.
