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Col-lectiu Eixarcolant, Spain
The Col-lectiu Eixarcolant aims to promote a more sustainable, ethical and fair model of food production, distribution and consumption, and socio-economic development by recovering edible wild species and traditional agricultural varieties.
Recovering edible wild species and traditional agricultural varieties:
To advance in the transformation of the agri-food and socio-economic model through the recovery and valorization of wild edible species and traditional agricultural varieties, the initiative operates on the following lines of action:
- Recovering the traditional varieties and wild edible species and selling them (more than 600 edible and traditional species and more than 200 traditional fruit trees)
- Promoting territorial dynamism, generation of synergies and social transformation
- Transferring knowledge.
- Preparing informative material and disseminating training for all kinds of audiences (More than 300 informative activities per year)
- Providing consultancy for agricultural, business, food and gastronomy
- Developing Manual tools to improve the efficiency of small-scale agriculture
- Developing food products based on wild species and traditional agricultural varieties.
- Naturalizing the management of green spaces in urban areas
- Promoting environmentally sustainable and non-sustainable food values depending on culture (countries), age groups, gender, or key vulnerable groups.
- Valorising species that help to change the consumption and agri-food model based on sustainability and proximity
- Publishing three books containing more than 88 edible wild plants
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