1st European Symposium
FOSTERING CULTIVATED BIODIVERSITY THROUGH LOCAL FOOD POLICIES
The role of seeds in accelerating organic and agroecology-oriented
food systems.
Granollers, Spain
29-30 April 2025
FOSTERING CULTIVATED
BIODIVERSITY THROUGH LOCAL
FOOD POLICIES
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” 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. The shared outcome will be the Declaration titled “Fostering Cultivated Biodiversity in European Municipalities”.
We are identifying European municipalities that are either actively engaged in or interested in initiating actions related to cultivated biodiversity to invite them to the Symposium. If you are already working on this topic or interested in doing so, and would like to participate in the event, please complete this survey, and we will get in touch with you. While the space is limited, we will do our best to accommodate as many municipalities as possible. Additionally, financial support may be available to facilitate your participation.
If you represent a European civil society entity, research organization or part of the food chain and are interested in this Symposium, please complete the survey as well.
DEADLINE: 10 January 2025
For further details or inquiries, please feel free to reach out to us at: info@foodpolicies4biodiversity.com
