Scientific evidence, management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural and tree biodiversity.
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The Lexicon leads multiple initiatives with public and private sector partners to enhance biodiversity in our agrifood systems. These stakeholders are vital for transforming good ideas into policies and actions that shift the marketplace to bring greater diversity to our fields and our plates.
The Lexicon leads multiple initiatives with public and private sector partners to support enhancing biodiversity in our agrifood systems. These stakeholders are vital for transforming good ideas into policies and actions that help transform the marketplace, bringing greater diversity to our fields and our plates.
FACT is a food systems solution activator lead by The Lexicon, with support from Food at Google. This accelerator for good ideas brings together leading experts in agrobiodiversity, unites them on real solutions, then transforms their ideas into open source tools.
These activators all follow a simple formula:
Define the problem. A core editorial group defines a set of specific short term challenges that must be overcome.
Mobilize. Key stakeholders are gathered from across the value chain—mixing food companies with scientists, academic institutions with NGOs— to develop solutions to this challenge in a six-month sprint.
Align. The group begins by uniting on shared values, which are then developed into mutually accepted core principles. The application of these principles is contextual, with sets of best practices emerging that are specific to each sector across the value chain.
Shared Language. The entire values/principles/practices exercise generates the core functional language for this sector. Agreement by all parties on these definitions leads to a machine-readable universal visual language to be used in multiple contexts. From here tools and applications can be built from this common framework.
Activate. The outcomes of the activator transforms the participants’ ideas into a collection of freely available open-source tools for the world to use.
Scientific evidence, management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural and tree biodiversity.
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