Underutilized crops hold significant promise in pursuing a sustainable food system. Below are key recommendations to overcome nutrition and dietary challenges by using underutilized plants.These practices can transform underutilized crops from overlooked resources into nutritional powerhouses. By fostering collaboration, awareness, and policy changes, these practices empower practitioners and pave the way for a sustainable food landscape. The main practical recommendations are: • Nutrition Insight: Know local cultivars, and leverage traditional foods for diverse nutrition.• Research Thrust: Probe health benefits of underutilized crops, fueling global nutrition.• Benefits Showcasing: Spotlight crop value nationally, regionally, and globally.• Stakeholder Strengthening: Capacitate nutrition allies for effective action.• Awareness Amplification: Elevate crop value awareness across stakeholders.• Wisdom Fusion: Blend science and tradition for broad impact.• Interdisciplinary Bonds: Unite health, agronomy, and sociology for holistic solutions.• Market Nexus: Link farmers, chefs, and retailers for seamless production to promotion.• Info Drive: Media campaigns for fact-based crop appreciation.• Culinary Revamp: Innovate dishes, and diversify diets for enriched experiences.• Perception Shift: Educate against biases, and celebrate crop diversity.• Cultivation Promotion: Popularize underutilized crops for robust yields.• Policy Advocacy: Showcase crop impact to influence decision-makers.• Equity Focus: Combat neglect and advocate equal treatment for crops.• National Nutrition Policies: Develop inclusive policies, and drive local-global collaboration.

In today’s ever-evolving agri-food landscape, farmers and end-users need to adopt practices that maximize productivity, sustainability, and overall well-being. This practice abstract highlights the transformative potential of ABM tools. Farmers and consumers can adopt these recommendations to embrace sustainable, profitable, and nutritionally rich agri-food practices. Main Results/Outcomes:• Educated consumers make informed choices.• Enhanced crop traits for increased productivity.• Safer food chains through the elimination of toxins and allergens.• Improved seed availability through local actors or government support. Practical Recommendations and Added Value:Implementing the generated knowledge brings significant benefits:• Safer foods inspire consumer confidence.• Green taxes promote eco-friendly options.• Optimize crop yields with beneficial traits.• Farmer support enhances seed availability.• Certification empowers informed decisions.• Access to high-quality seeds boosts harvests.• Nutrition education drives sustainable choices.• Plant-based diets reduce environmental impact.• Food systems approach aligns policy with goals.• Novel food recipes encourage crop diversification.

Enhancing Agricultural Value Chains through Agent-Based Modelling Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) tools have the power to revolutionize agriculture. This approach provides valuable insights that can improve how farmers and end-users operate on a daily basis. ABM's influence on value chains can offer crucial recommendations for policy and market changes, leading to shifts in practices and development processes. • Data and Interaction: ABM relies on data from various sources throughout the value chain. To make this work, it's important to standardize data formats and streamline interactions, possibly through ontologies.• Market-Centric Approach: In BIOVALUE's framework, we consider both value chains and markets. Markets have a big impact on how agents behave. ABM incorporates demand-related factors to make market recommendations, which in turn influence the decisions of everyone in the value chain.• Practical Benefits Unleashed: ABM’s results empower stakeholders. It guides choices, determining the feasibility of new products and understanding how policies affect markets.• Entrepreneurial Edge: This approach leads to cost-effectiveness, productivity, and informed choices, underlining practical relevance and profit potential. Hence, ABM’s value chain applications provide practitioners with a toolkit for modern agriculture since it bridges capability and real-world impact, boosting agriculture, profits, and sustainability.

To optimize agro-food value chains a set of actionable strategies are offered for farmers, consumers, and the entire value chain. For Farmers:• Boosting Underutilized Crops: Back local seeds with subsidies, reducing costs and elevating income.• Sustainable Farming Skills: Train in organic practices and modern tech for resource stewardship.• Tech Adoption: Support irrigation and soil tech for efficient growth.• Biodiversity Labels: Certify underutilized crops, informing choices and supporting diversity.• Enhancing Soil Health: Prioritize fertilization and eco-friendly protection.• Seed Networks: Foster local seed events for diverse cultivation. For Consumers:• Nutrition Awareness: Highlight underutilized foods’ benefits for healthier diets.• Mindful Consumption: Promote sustainability through diet changes.• Culinary Exploration: Educate on underutilized foods’ culinary uses.• Youth-Centric Nutrition: Instill healthy eating habits in youth.• Sustainable Education: Embed eco-friendly principles in youth learning.• Informed Choices: Provide environmental impact data for conscious consumption.• Green Incentives: Raise taxes on ecologically harmful products. For the Entire Value Chain:• Localized Supply Chains: Foster local collaborations for quality and growth.• Labeling Boost: Strengthen labels for local and underutilized products. Market and Practical Insights:• Farmer Markets: Create markets connecting producers and consumers.• Digital Platforms: Develop online platforms for accessible markets.• Sustainability Incentives: Link incentives to sustainable practices.• School Initiatives: Implement sustainable food policies in schools.

In BioValue, we're developing a tool to help introduce underutilized crops into the food supply chain. We're using a modeling approach that looks at how different players interact in the agricultural system. We're considering factors like climate and water availability and aiming to encourage biodiversity by involving market and social influences. Within this attempt, the creation of a data warehouse can be very valuable. In particular a darawarehouse helps in: 1. Collecting and Organizing Information: The agents might need information, like weather data or historical facts, to make decisions. A data warehouse collects and organizes all this information in one place.2. Setting Rules for Agents: The agents have rules they follow, like "if it's raining, go inside." These rules often depend on data. The data warehouse helps us store these rules and change them easily.3. Making Sure Everything Fits Reality: We want our model to be as close to reality as possible. The data warehouse stores real-world data that we can use to check if the model behaves realistically.4. Helping Agents Make Decisions: When the agents need to decide what to do, they can use data from the warehouse. For example, if they would be cars, they can check traffic data to decide the best route.5. Trying Different Scenarios: We can use the data warehouse to test different situations, like "What happens if it's really sunny?". This helps us to understand how different conditions affect the model.6. Seeing What Happened: After using our model, we can look at the data in the warehouse to see what happened.

Developing a conceptual framework for the analysis of value chains and their effect on biodiversity In this practice abstract we present our approach to better understand the agri-food value chains and their link with biodiversity. Our methodology is based on a qualitative value chain analysis combining data collection and interviews with experts. This helps us to draw up a portrait of the different value chains by identifying the actors, the links and flows that connect them as well as their behaviour, and to identify the obstacles to biodiversity. The proposed methodology can be adopted from value chain actors and stakeholders, and, properly adjusted, it can be implemented in a variety of value chains. Within BioValue this methodology will be applied to 12 different value chains (in France, Germany, Italy and Norway) in order to retrieve useful data related to agro-biodiversity. In particular, the methodology applied is based on several steps: 1. Bibliographical research to collect information on the value chain and identify experts.2. Interviews with these experts in order to validate and complete the collected information.3. Data classification by classifing the collected data in relation to the different actors by:• Completing the analysis chapter describing the different groups of actors in the value chain and describe the different links between them, highlighting the barriers and levers related to biodiversity• Creating visual representations of the value chain structure ensuring a clear legend for easy interpretation4. Holistic analysis of the value chain, emphasizing the roles of individual actors. This analysis leads up to the development of a comprehensive map illustrating the value chain dynamics.

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