Germonte 3 - Germplasm of Piedmont: enhancement through communication

The project, which UNISG leads, aims to realize actions designed to protect and enhance agricultural and food biodiversity.

In Piedmont, the characterization and conservation of ancient plant varieties have always been activities carried out by Bodies, Associations and farmers which, also thanks to funded projects, have contributed to the enhancement of agro-biodiversity, to the contrast or to the slowing of the genetic erosion that many local varieties were necessarily facing. First of all, the results and knowledge acquired from the numerous activities carried out on the regional territory by different realities need to be harmonized and disseminated.

The project involves the carrying out of the following activities:

1. Animation and dissemination of the regional network of agricultural and food biodiversity through the creation of:
   - catalog fields with plots and educational gardens;
   - technical meetings in the field;
   - meetings with consumers;
   - a publication and a video illustrating all the project phases and the genetic resources taken into consideration.
2. Cycle of lectures on agrobiodiversity at high schools.
3. Conference aimed at celebrating the agricultural and food biodiversity day and at animating the regional biodiversity network.

In spring and summer 2021, 10 meetings were held in the field to exchange opinions between producers and technicians and to make consumers aware of the conservation varieties of wheat, corn and vegetables

Ponzano, June 3, 2021

Bruzolo, June 17, 2021

Osasco, June 19, 2021

Pianezza, July 17, 2021

Pollenzo, July 23, 2021

• 10 Catalogue / Conservation Fields
• 11 Technical / Outreach Meetings
• 10 Lessons at secondary schools in Turin and the surrounding province
• 1 Public event: World Biodiversity Day
• 1 Publication
• 4 Outreach Videos

4 videos were produced by the Cinema Lab of Pollenzo, illustrating:

The activities of the Piedmont Region and the RDP aimed at protecting and promoting biodiversity

Conservation varieties of wheat and the stakeholders of Piedmont

Conservation varieties of vegetables and the stakeholders of Piedmont

Conservation varieties of maize and the stakeholders of Piedmont

A publication was produced concerning the protection and promotion of Piedmontese biodiversity and the activities of the GERMONTE3 project.

Saturday 21 May Pollenzo at the University of Gastronomic Sciences is celebrating the "National Day of Biodiversity of Agricultural and Food Interest of the Piedmont Region ". A day of meetings, exchanges of seeds and knowledge in a festive and social context, a program full of activities to raise awareness of the cultural and genetic heritage of Piedmontese agri-food biodiversity.

Agrobiodiversity in the RDP 2014/2022 and in the RDP 2023/2027. Regulatory framework and introduction to the Germonte3 project - Nadia Ansaldi and Stefano Dolzan, Piedmont Region

- Presentation of the results of the Germonte3 Project:

• Publication, field meetings and videos - Paola Migliorini, UNISG and Sandra Spagnolo, AIAB;
• Lesson in schools - Ezio Portis, DISAFA, University of Turin;

- Regulations on seeds of conservation varieties - Riccardo Bocci, Rete Semi Rurali

- Conservation rice varieties in Piedmont - Manuele Mussa, Az. Ag. Una Garlanda di Stocchi F.lli e C.

- The Forni&Fornai Project - Karen Lopez and Matteo Calzolari, Comunità del Grano dell’ Alto Appennino between Bologna and Florence

- The companies that participated in the Germonte3 project:

• Az. Agr. Cascina delle Grazie, Agridelta, Franco Andrea, Ostenga Organics - Associazione Antichi Mais Piemontesi;
• Az. Agr. L’Altromercato, Az. Ag. La Tadea, Az. Ag. Savarino, Az. Ag. Reale - ASCI;
• Carlo Gaddo - Az. Agr. Il Girasole;
• Giovanni Faggio, Carlo Arcostanzo - Il Papavero Rosso;
  Massimiliano Spigolon - Mulino Valsusa.