The Granollers City Council, the Spanish Network of Municipalities for Agroecology (Red de Municipios por la Agroecología), and the Horizon EU project LiveSeeding are organizing the 1st European Symposium “Fostering Cultivated Biodiversity through Local Food Policies. The role of seeds in accelerating organic and agroecology-oriented food systems“ on April 29-30, 2025, in Granollers (Barcelona Metropolitan Area).
This event aims to create a political and communicative momentum at the European level to strengthen the integration of cultivated biodiversity in municipal actions as a tool for building sustainable, healthy, and biodiverse local food systems, and to establish the necessary alliances to support this effort.
The Symposium will, upon invitation, bring together around one hundred technical and political representatives from European municipalities active in the field, as well as other key stakeholders in the areas of organic production, cultivated biodiversity, sustainable food systems, and agroecology, both from research and civil society organizations.
Over the course of the two-day event, participants will engage in collective reflection and exchange of knowledge, successful experiences, and municipal practices to shape local policies that integrate cultivated biodiversity and organic seeds into city-region agri-food systems.
Want to join us?
Please complete this survey, which aims to map European municipalities actively involved in or interested in initiating actions in the field of cultivated biodiversity, to invite them to the Symposium. If you are interested in participating or would like more information about the event, please let us know by answering the questions (deadline 20 January 2025). The survey will take no more than 5 minutes, and your contribution is sincerely appreciated.
Why this topic?
Cultivated biodiversity encompasses landraces and old varieties, farmers’ varieties and populations, outcomes of participatory breeding and dynamic populations, as well as open-pollinated varieties developed through organic plant breeding. Particular focus can be placed on cultivars within open-source seed systems and those that enable unrestricted reproduction (non-hybrids).
- Cultivated Biodiversity is key in organic, agroecology-oriented and local food systems.
- Agroecology-oriented food policies can contribute to organic and diversified city-region food systems.
- Municipalities have a key role in enhancing cultivated biodiversity through local food policies.
For further details or inquiries, please feel free to reach out to us at info@foodpolicies4biodiversity.com.
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