KVANN – Norwegian Seed Savers

Website: KVANN

Research Focus & Mission Statements

COMING SOON

Project Role

Lead partner for participatory assessments of ecosystem services and of the social dimension in msAFS

KVANN coordinates and implements Norwegian Living Lab activities, ensuring robust collaboration and multi-actor co-creation among diverse stakeholders, including multi-level governance actors, research institutes, chefs and a network of historical gardens. KVANN manages the Norwegian msAFS sites, organize stakeholder workshops, open-field days, and dissemination events on topics including msAFS design, selection criteria and propagation of perennial species and varieties, soil health, school gardens, food forest gardens, and urban agriculture.

KVANN also coordinates the participatory Ecosystem Service assessment tool development and data collection, and develops dissemination materials such as videos and brochures.

KVANN facilitates comprehensive engagement, fosters social learning, addresses social resilience, equity, and inclusivity, and facilitates well-being/social impact assessment across Root2Fork Living Lab regions.

KVANN lends expertise for the economic assessment and facilitates science-policy dialogues at local and regional levels, embedding crop genetic diversity into local food policies, and promoting multi-level governance by bringing outcomes to platforms like the Klimasmart Landbruk Østfold, and Slow Food Oslo.

Additionally, KVANN coordinates the development of a multi-stakeholder Root2Fork action plan. This process involves onboarding various value chain stakeholders, organizing vision meetings, conducting learning trips to other Living Labs, and refining an actionable strategy, based on KPIs from collaborative meetings. Results will be regularly shared with key stakeholders, to ensure the up scaling and the long-term viability of agroforestry initiatives throughout Norway.