Deliverable D6.4 - First set of practice abstracts

The Deliverable 6.4 “First set of practice abstracts” reports a first collection of the DIVINFOOD’s tested practices and approaches, as summarised by Partners. This compendium of 20 practice abstracts (PAs) offers a glimpse of the DIVINFOOD’s activities carried out in the partners’ countries and across the 7 project’s Living Labs, highlighting technical and conceptual approaches to the valorisation of neglected and underutilised crops (NUCs) in value chains and consumption. The practices reported in the 20 PAs have been generated by DIVINFOOD in the first half of its journey and represent an initial assortment of suitable and replicable indications to breed, cultivate, process, market, cook and promote NUCs. Moreover, the PAs highlight the efforts made to increase the NUCs performance and presence in the food system as well as the relevant actors’know how and savoir faire, which needs to be properly capitalised. This first set of 20 PAs is the result of a collective endeavour, benefitting from the contributions made by a broad group of Partners representative of virtually all DIVINFOOD’s Work Packages and Living Labs. Basically, every geographical zone, crop, typology of actors and value chain link concerned by the project is represented in one or more PAs. Acknowledgment of their contributions is provided below and the authorship is appropriately reported in each PA.