INCREASE I Come with us... Citizens for agrobiodiversity!

Come with us and give agrobiodiversity a chance! Protecting and promoting agrobiodiversity and the genetic resources of our world’s food crops as a whole is a massive undertaking, yet paramount in securing our foods in a rapidly changing world. This video clip released by the EU research project INCREASE highlights just that while stressing that every citizen can contribute to preserving the diversity in crops in small ways. The citizen involvement has the potential to determine a radical change making strategies of agrobiodiversity and genetic resources conservation much more effective and successful. The video clip was only made possible thanks to the participants of the INCREASE Citizen Science Experiment generously sharing their bean growing experiences through images and videos as part of the ‘INCREASE Citizen Science Video and Photo Contest 2021’. In combination with animated sequences, originating from the previously released Citizen Science clips ‘Come with us!’ and ‘Become a Cit