Registrations are now open for the 15th edition of the Let’s Liberate Diversity! (LLD) Forum, taking place in Scandicci (Florence area), Italy, from 23 to 25 May 2026.
This year’s LLD Forum will be hosted as part of the 5th edition of the “72 Hours of Biodiversity” festival, a three-day event dedicated to cultivated biodiversity and organised by Rete Semi Rurali (RSR).
LLD is one of the key European meeting points for actors working on cultivated biodiversity in practice: farmers, breeders, seed networks, researchers, and civil society organisations. It is a place where practical experiences and ongoing policy debates meet, including topics that are directly relevant to organic seed systems, organic plant breeding, and the enabling frameworks needed to support them.
What to expect in Scandicci
The Scandicci edition is designed as a working forum rather than a conference. Over three days, participants will move between focused discussions and hands-on exchange formats where cultivated biodiversity is approached as a practical system: who maintains it, how it circulates, how it is financed, and how it is affected by intellectual property and emerging breeding techniques.
The organisers have indicated that the programme will centre on farmers’ rights and patents, breeding approaches including participatory and organic plant breeding, and the implications of biotechnology and NGT. The main forum day will combine workshops, networking, a farmers’ market atmosphere and tasting-based formats, with an optional field visit to an organic farm on the final day.
Programme updates and all logistical information (venues, travel, accommodation) can be found here.
