Seeds are the foundation of farming, thus we must ensure that organic seeds are available to farmers. However, appropriate organic seeds and cultivars are lacking. The organic seed market in Europe is still underdeveloped, due to unsolved technical and socio-economic problems and to limited capacity for breeding locally adapted cultivars suited for organic farming conditions.
LiveSeeding aims to accelerate organic farming and transition towards sustainable food systems by
LiveSeeding is a 4-year Innovation Action focusing on technology transfer and market uptake.
The overall objective of LiveSeeding is to facilitate the delivery on the market of high-diversity cultivars for a wide range of crops, as basis for quality organic seed production to foster more sustainable food systems.
LiveSeeding will:
LiveSeeding adopts a robust multi-actor approach involving partners from all the major actor groups. These actors will be integrated through 17 Living Labs (LLs), where innovation will be co-created, and an innovative ICT based citizen-science methodology will be applied.
LiveSeeding addresses the complexity of the current lock-ins of the organic breeding and seed sector, through a multi-faceted “PUSH-PULL-ENABLE” model aiming to
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