Good practices concerning farmers seeds Erasmus Project

Project Title

Good practices concerning farmers seeds

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Environment and climate change; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

APRENTISEM (“Good practices for learnings related to farmers seeds”) is part of an ongoing process initiated ten years ago by the european networks for promotion and development of cultivated biodiversity. This projects aims at facing a major issue : genetic erosion of cultivated varieties. This erosion mainly comes from the lost of knowledge and know-how related to on-farm seed conservation.
APRENTISEM aims at carrying out an analysis of partner’s peer learning paths, in particular by identifying good practices.
APRENTISEM’s more specific objectives are to contribute to i) improving participants’ skills and knowledge related to cultivated biodiversity (120 farmers, artisanal seeds producers and agricultural facilitators) ; ii) strengthening partners’ trainers and facilitators’ skills in terms of facilitation and support ; iii) promoting peer learning within the european networks for agrobiodiversity preservation and development.
The evaluation methodology bases on concrete case studies (i.e. learning activities focused on peer learning) in order to analyze in real conditions the different practices carried out by the partners. These activities have been defined according to the target audience’s requests related to skills transfers on precise themes. The project’s activities encompass a great part of learning issues faced by farmers : how to process and add value on-farm to cultivated biodiversity products? ; how to act collectively/mutualize a work on live beings? ; How to produce one’s own seeds and what is the farmers seeds’ legal, economic and political context? This analysis will be completed by sharing and capitalizing pedagogical experiences between partner’s staffs and key-persons.
At the end of the project, a good practices guide will be edited and the project’s results will be disseminated within partner’s organisations’ members (148 organisations implying about 25,000 persons). The project’s results will also be spread at european level within partner’s networks (research institutes, universities, European Coordination for Let’s Liberate Diversity, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements – IFOAM, European Coordination Via Campesina – ECVC).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 111307 Eur

Project Coordinator

RESEAU SEMENCES PAYSANNES – ASSOCIATION POUR LA BIODIVERSITE DES SEMENCES ET PLANTS DANS LES FERMES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• RETE SEMI RURALI
• RED DE SEMILLAS RESEMBRANDO E INTERCAMBIANDO