María Carrascosa

    LiveSeeding Project manager, Red de Municipios por la Agroecología

    Agricultural engineer and Masters in organic farming. For more than 20 years she has focused her professional activity on food sovereignty, agroecology, community management of cultivated biodiversity, small-scale agriculture and short marketing channels, building bridges between actors from very different fields. She has worked in Spain, but also in other countries such as France, Brazil and Panama. She has been the general manager of the organic producers’ cooperative Agrícola Pueblos Blancos in Cádiz, the director of the Andalusian Seed Network and the technical coordinator of the Spanish Seed Network. In the Spanish Cities Network for Agroecology, she currently coordinates the Food and Climate Lab, the Farmers’ Forum and the LiveSeeding project.

    All Sessions by María Carrascosa

    • Day 1: 29 April 2025


    • 09:30  - 10:00

      Moderator: María Carrascosa García, LiveSeeding Project manager, Red de Municipios por la Agroecología.

      Speakers:

      • Alba Barnusell Ortuño – Mayor of Granollers.
      • Enrique Pueyo – Mayor of Aínsa and President of the Red de Municipios por la Agroecología.
      • Mariano Iossa – Coordinator of the LiveSeeding Project, FiBL - EU.
      Where
      Roca Umbert, Sala NAUB1

    • 10:00  - 11:00

      This session will address the scope and contribution of cultivated biodiversity and how municipalities can promote local seed systems through food policies to face its challenges.

      Moderator: Adrián Rodríguez Burruezo, Director of the Preservation and Improvement of Valencian Agro-diversity University Research Institute, Spain.

      Speakers:

      • Mariateresa Lazzaro – Senior Scientist in Plant Breeding for Organic Agriculture at FiBL - Switzerland and Scientific Co-Coordinator of the LiveSeeding Project.
      • Álvaro Toledo – Deputy Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO.
      • María Carrascosa García – LiveSeeding Project manager, Red de Municipios por la Agroecología.
      Where
      Roca Umbert, Sala NAUB1



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    María Carrascosa