Putting six underused arable crops back in the fields: oats, hull-less barley for human consumption, triticale, buckwheat, faba beans and lupins. That is the goal of the Horizon 2020 project CROPDIVA. Twenty seven European partners are joining forces to enhance agrobiodiversity in Europe. They will achieve this by focusing on crop diversity and creating local value chains.
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SAVE THE DATE: CROPDIVA International Symposium
From the 4th to the 6th of December 2023, CROPDIVA welcomes guests from all over the world for its first international symposium.
Partners from 12 different countries, 27 different universities, companies and organisations relocate to the St. Peter’s Abbey in Ghent (Belgium) to discuss the general topic of Agrobiodiversity along the value chain.
Want to join us for an interesting event full of informative talks and hands-on, multi-stakeholder workshops?
Be sure to book the date in your calendar, and stay tuned for more detailed information on the symposium programme!
Approach
The project activities will focus on (1) improving the resilience of cultivation systems, (2) aligning the economic and social needs of farmers with ecological targets, and (3) marketing of new food/non-food products that meet the needs of consumers.
All selected crops have a broad genetic background that can be used to cross in important characteristics relating to factors such as resilience to stress and an improved nutritional value. Moreover, these crops have major ecological benefits. Many of them produce nectar-rich flowers or fix air nitrogen, for example. This will lead to highly resilient agroecosystems with greater adaptability to climate change, a better use of genetic resources, and greater food diversity.
Biodiversity management at all levels
The results of CROPDIVA will not end up in a dusty pile of paperwork. They will be used for innovative solutions in order to facilitate biodiversity management at all levels. As the project progresses, results achieved will be made available on this website.
So far, the following deliverables are available for download.
Results
By developing tools for the integration of the six undertuilised crops in local agricultural systems and along the value chain, CROPDIVA will contribute to a low-carbon and climate resilient agro-economy, one of the six common EU rural development policy priorities. To achieve this objective, CROPDIVA aims to inspire actors along to chain to get better acquainted with and informed about the possibilities and uses of the different underutilised crops.
The following articles offer inspirational content that is worth looking at:
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Geert Haesaert
Prof. Geert Haesaert, Coordinator, Department of Plants and Crops, Ghent University – geert.haesaert@ugent.be
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement NO 101000847
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